Altcoin News: A Boy Sells His Drawings Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

February 23, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

The nine-year-old boy came up with one of the most entertaining ways to use the Lightning Network (LN). A child sells his drawings using the Bitcoin’s LN to make his own money on the Nintendo Switch.

The boy sells sketches and finished drawings. The sketch can be purchased for $1, and the finished work costs $10. Order young entrepreneur sends by e-mail and by traditional mail. The idea of ​​earning a game with the child’s own work was prompted by his father, who is a crypto-enthusiast. He helped his son create a WordPress site called Lightning Pictures. You can pay for the drawing using the LN through a platform for deploying support for OpenNode virtual servers.

This is not the only example of non-standard use of the network of instant payments Bitcoin. It was reported to the wound that the artist sold his work at an auction for the lowest bidder — 1 milli-satoshi or $0.000000037. Thus the artist demonstrated the capabilities of the Lightning Network.

While crypto enthusiasts are coming up with new ways to use the second-level Bitcoin solution, the bandwidth capacity of the Lightning Network is growing. It has already increased to 710 BTC, and the number of LN nodes has reached 6481, while the number of active channels currently exceeds 29,000.

Author: Marko Vidrih

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