I know Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs has spoken out against it, and so has jimmymow, creator of the LN desktop wallet Zap. Pretty much everybody working on LN is saying to not do it, because people don't know what they're doing, the technology isn't ready and breaking changes are being made all the time (that's why they're testing on testnet), and when things go wrong with it before it's ready, people will be less likely to try it again.

It definitely isn't being encouraged by any lightning developers, save maybe Blockstream themselves and they even have a big fat warning label on their website.

I think in bitcoin core developers know what she doing.
Its not a shitfork of btc, where can something going wrong

I would agree with this. When people are prepared to take small risks it is how thing move along. The recent news that Torguard is excepting payment over LN for example.

https://news.bitcoin.com/vpn-provider-now-accepts-lightning-network-payments/

There's a great quote in there:


That's the kind of attitude that gets things done.

I read somewhere the Blockstream are encouraging people to test LN on the mainnet as opposed to the testnet, I'll try and find the link if I can and post it here.

A little irresponsible if you ask me, but then I'm not the biggest fan of BS anyway...

This show how much BTC needs LN at the moment. BTC won't be going back up to 16k anytime soon without LN (working properly) in term of speculation and in term of tech, BTC has been rendered useless for awhile now - 2 out of the only 3 major companies that were accepting BTC has to drop it because of the high transaction fees and SUPER DUPER LONG transfer time.

Well, someone has to take the risk and tbe the traiblazer that does so. Blockstream have a shop accepting bitcoin payments now (nothing serious, just t-shirts and stickers), and some guy bought a router from TorGuard:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7rkunw/lightning_the_future_just_arrived_at_my_doorstep/

And the router arrived:

https://imgur.com/a/2KEQ7

So this could be the first ever lightning transaction for a real product. Those that take the risks make history. At least he will be able to say to his kids that he did that.

Just over 1.6 BTC across nearly 250 channels on mainnet.  No sign of any hiccups so far.  It all appears pretty sensible and people are keeping the hype to a minimum.  I'd say this all bodes pretty well for the future.



Obviously they shouldn't be encouraging just anyone to give it a try, particularly inexperienced newcomers.  That would indeed be reckless.  But for the experienced, technical users who know exactly what they're doing, that's probably okay.  Plus, the caps on the amounts you can currently send are there for a reason.  If something did go wrong, it shouldn't result in heavy losses.



I'm genuinely impressed by such a strong level of commitment on their part.  Highly commendable, provided they do what they claim to if the need does arise.

I am not completely against it rather i believe that by using small amounts by a large no of people can fasten it's testing can be done but encourage it a lot a also cost a large amount of fortune to the bitcoinusers . Based on the recent testings i have seen it has a promising future.