The Lightning Network represents the first technological paradigm shift on the Bitcoin network in nearly half a decade. It was at the end of the BIP revolution that network traffic greatly increased and transaction malleability became an issue. Most notably it was the Bitcoin transaction fees that began to exceed a dollar. The Lightning Network represents several years of blood, sweat, and tears that resulted in Segwit and a solution to the high transaction fees.

I t’s time for the Lightning revolution.

At TokenSoft, we rely heavily on underlying networks such as Bitcoin, and Ethereum. So it’s imperative for us to give back to the networks and help support them the best we can. At our company offsite this week, we spent some time thinking about how to support the next paradigm shift in Bitcoin.

How We’re Helping

We’ve setup our own Lightning node and are enabling everyone to connect to the Lightning Network for free. All you have to do is set up a lightning channel and connect to our node using the instructions below and we will refund your transaction fee for the next three days.

You may connect using the following commands — If you are not set up for Lightning, see the instructions below.

$ ./cli/lightning-cli connect 0235447c7485ff2b945bac5fbc366d54a87389bab8cacf1b64b26ec01e96bd165a 52.90.74.148 9735

$ ./cli/lightning-cli fundchannel 0235447c7485ff2b945bac5fbc366d54a87389bab8cacf1b64b26ec01e96bd165a 50000



Once you’re connected tweet us @tokensoftinc with your lightning node id, IP address, and your invoice and we will send you a refund for your fee. This offer will only be valid between 9AM and 6PM PT and will end on Saturday at 6PM PT.