3 devs from Lightning Labs is answering questions and AMA is translated by 8btc team so there should be some delays.
Elizabeth Stark(CEO and cofounder of Lightning Labs), Rusty Russell(Blockstream architect engineer) and Olaoluwa Osuntokun (founder ofLightning Labs）.
ElizabethStark:
我一直认为LN能够实现我们一直以来对比特币的愿景，即能够使用各种应用或设备无缝地发送资金，而不必信任任何中心化机构。LN不仅能使比特币可以以任何数量进行大规模即时交易（包括非常小的价值），而且能够使用户在比特币和莱特币等货币之间进行无信任的兑换。
I’ve always seen LN as fulfilling the vision that we always had for bitcoin: being able to send money seamlessly within a variety of apps or devices, without having to trust a central party. LN will not only bring instant transacting at scale to bitcoin at any amount, including small values, but it can also enable users to trustlessly swap between currencies, such as BTC and LTC.
最近我们有一个团队退出了闪电实验室，而且我们刚确定我们公司的核心价值之一是“don’t yolo security”。基本上，我们想要非常认真地对待安全问题，因此，我们认为，在我们的软件在比特币(或莱特币)主网上线之前，对其进行彻底的测试是非常重要的。目前，我们并没有在发布日期上做出任何承诺，但我们正在努力地工作！
We recently had a team retreat for Lightning Labs where we decided one of our core company values is “don’t yolo security.” Basically, we want to take security very seriously and as a result, we believe it’s important to test our software thoroughly before putting it on the bitcoin (or litecoin) mainnet. For now, we’re not making any promises on dates but we’re working as fast as we can!
有各种各样的公司和团队正在开发闪电网络协议软件。我们公司，闪电实验室，现在共有6名员工，我们在Github上LND的repo还有许多其他开源贡献者(github.com/lighntningnetwork/lnd)。Blockstream至少有两名工程师正在开发C-Lighting部署，一家名为Acinq的法国初创公司有一些工程师正在开发Elair，还有来自麻省理工学院DCI的Lit项目。
There are various companies and teams working on Lightning Network protocol software. Our company, Lightning Labs, has a total of 6 people working for us right now, and we have numerous other open source contributors to our github repo for LND (github.com/lighntningnetwork/lnd). Blockstream at least two engineers working on the c-lightning implementation, a French startup named Acinq has a few engineers working on Eclair, and there’s the Lit project from MIT DCI among others.
目前我们是有天使投资人支持的小型初创公司，但最终我们计划是通过创建工具和服务来盈利，从而让人们更好的使用LN。闪电协议将始终保持开源！
Right now we are a small startup with angel investors, but eventually we plan on making money from building tools and services to better enable people to use LN. The protocol will always remain open source!
AMA thread:
http://8btc.com/thread-75997-1-1.html
