Lightning Network

2 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adam Back · said 19 times in 8 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Held up
Back: Lightning Network implementations will yield results within six months
“There's a GitHub and a development mailing list, and there are now three, I think maybe four companies who've come forward with implementations of the early stages of it, and we're hopeful that we'll see results from that within the six-month time frame.”
Adam Back Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:13 a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Held up
Back: Lightning Network could scale Bitcoin capacity up to 10,000x
“There's also right now quite active work on this sort of Bitcoin enhancement called lightning, which is a best described as a kind of right caching layer for Bitcoin, which might scale Bitcoin by a factor of a thousand or 10,000.”
Adam Back Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:48 a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
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