Lightning Labs Just Released Desktop App On Mainnet

[BitMerDir]

Lightning Labs have just released the Lightning App for desktop.
Its the first mainnet application of the Neutrino light client, so will be very interesting to see how it performs.

https://www.bitcoinmerchant.directory/lightning-desktop-app-released-on-mainnet/

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[pushups44]

I'm excited about this, but as I understand it it's still in the alpha phase of testing. I'd like to see some more refinements before I try it out. They will also be releasing Android and iOS apps. This will allow you to use the Lightning Network and secure bitcoin without having to download the entire blockchain.

[BitMerDir]

I'm excited about this, but as I understand it it's still in the alpha phase of testing. I'd like to see some more refinements before I try it out. They will also be releasing Android and iOS apps. This will allow you to use the Lightning Network and secure bitcoin without having to download the entire blockchain.

Yes, Lightning Labs seem to be a very responsible group of developers in terms of their releases. They are calling this early alpha. Its a good start for testing out Neutrino in a live environment, and also the new autopilot restructuring from the LND v0.6 release.

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[Genemind]

I'm excited about this, but as I understand it it's still in the alpha phase of testing. I'd like to see some more refinements before I try it out. They will also be releasing Android and iOS apps. This will allow you to use the Lightning Network and secure bitcoin without having to download the entire blockchain.

A great news, I am sure that users might still find bugs and problems with it.
But, still it's a big step for development. They are also on their way on developing and releasing Android and iOS apps, but this might take sometime maybe once they have improved, fixed bugs and problems.

[Haunebu]

I'm excited about this, but as I understand it it's still in the alpha phase of testing. I'd like to see some more refinements before I try it out. They will also be releasing Android and iOS apps. This will allow you to use the Lightning Network and secure bitcoin without having to download the entire blockchain.

They are also on their way on developing and releasing Android and iOS apps, but this might take sometime maybe once they have improved, fixed bugs and problems.

You literally reiterated the same point that the previous poster mentioned. Not cool.

Coming to the topic itself, I am glad that Neutrino testing is finally underway, but I don't expect testing to finish anytime soon though more users will probably be able to test it thanks to not having to download the entire blockchain.

[okala]

This is a great news to have a desktop app for lightening network, because since the lightening network is still new in the bitcoin transactions process having access to it on a desktop will make it more reliable and easy to use the app on the mainnet.

[Artemis3]

Lightning Labs have just released the Lightning App for desktop.
Its the first mainnet application of the Neutrino light client, so will be very interesting to see how it performs.

I'm going to check this out soon. Does it need (or bring) a Lightning node? and so, does it need a bitcoin node running as well?

IIRC Neutrino can use a pruned Bitcoin node, and since it says "Neutrino based" i guess that would be logical, unless its bundling the whole thing.

[BitMerDir]

I'm going to check this out soon. Does it need (or bring) a Lightning node? and so, does it need a bitcoin node running as well?

IIRC Neutrino can use a pruned Bitcoin node, and since it says "Neutrino based" i guess that would be logical, unless its bundling the whole thing.

The Lightning App is a Lightning Node (LND based). Neutrino negates the need for a bitcoin full node(for these use cases).
It is a Light Node that can be run on smaller devices. Basically it downloads a filtered version of the blockchain in a way that it can trustlessly check transaction info using 1/250th of the space, and without leaking any of the user's info like SPV does.

Initial sync is done in a few minutes in the background while you write down your seed, and each new block is represented by a filter of about 15kb. So very low bandwidth and storage requirements.