There’s a good reason why so many people are testing Lightning Network in a controlled environment. After months of problems and doubts, it seems that she has finally made some progress. All this, in part, thanks to the hard work of Acinq developers.

Peter Todd and Lightning Network

Over the past few months, Peter Todd has been experimenting with the Lightning Network implementation for bitcoin. Despite the attractiveness of this solution, the technology is not perfect. In fact, Todd has often reported” failures “ on Lightning.

Criticism of the programming language of the scaling solution for bitcoin is quite interesting. The C language is quite common among developers of applications. For Todd, this appears to be an inherent security risk. In addition, the implementation of Lightning did not come to the liking of other experts.

Peter Todd also expressed his opinion about the network Protocol itself, calling it “vulnerable to DdoS attacks.” However, it has completely changed its mind about Lightning Network, after the network has demonstrated significant progress.

Todd claims that in April he was able to successfully make three small payments through the Acinq wallet. All these transactions took place without delay or problems.

In particular, each payment made by him was completed instantly. This in itself shows that Lightning Network is developing. Although this decision is still not perfect, everything is going in the right direction. However, there is still reason to be cautious when sending transactions, as most features are still in beta testing.

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