Back: Lightning Network implementations will yield results within six months
Adam Back · a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:13
Adam Back highlights open-source progress and corporate participation around early Lightning Network implementations for Bitcoin.
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“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.”
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