Lightning Network
product on 9 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 33 times in 17 episodes since 2018
the a16z Podcast 19 
Acquired 2 
BG2 Pod 2 
Cheeky Pint 2 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
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Armstrong: Bitcoin's Lightning Network Never Really Took Off
“The lightning network was a optimization layer on top of Bitcoin, but it never really took off.”
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.”
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.”
Garg: Programmable money payment rails like Lightning Network will get built out
“Or the big one, the other big one I'd add basically is, is programmable money. I think like payment, the payment rails will all get built out. Things like lightning network and plasma or zero fee payment networks that are coming up. And I think the merchant si…”