The release coincides with a stronger presentation of the company's long - term vision, one that will find it seeking to
enable micropayments via API services for developers.
The implementation of Lightning Network and other solutions including TumbleBit will further scale the Bitcoin network by
enabling micropayments and applications that were not possible before.
Let's say you're buying a house for this little family of yours, including the teen who has to email his homework to the professor before he can play new videogames paid for with Lightning -
enabled micropayments.
Meanwhile Bitrefill, which allows users to pay phone bills or buy video games with bitcoin, is testing similar Lightning -
enabled micropayments with real bitcoin.
Not exact matches
Micropayments are an important feature
enabled by the Bitcoin technology.
The original Bittorrent software
enables peer - to - peer file sharing, but Joystream hopes
micropayment incentives for sharing files and bandwidth can help create a more robust torrenting atmosphere.
It is Ethereum's version of Bitcoin's Lightning Network,
enabling near - instant, low - fee, scalable
micropayments.
The standardization and deployment of the Lightning Network's second - level, off - chain payment layer is expected to result in instant bitcoin transactions, improved scalability and lower fees,
enabling fast and cheap
micropayments.
To demonstrate its technology, Blockstream has also announced the launch of e-commerce store powered by Lightning Charge, which
enables users to make use of Lightning
micropayments on the bitcoin mainnet.
While Charles referred to the Lightning Network as «good technology» that will be helpful for
enabling instant transactions and
micropayments on Bitcoin, he also pointed out a number of caveats to the positive aspects of this new payments technology in the early days of its availability.
According to the authors, lightning networks would
enable Bitcoin scalability, efficient
micropayments, and near - instant transactions.
The protocol will also allow smart devices to share resources and make payments, while reducing the load for the end user and
enabling machine - to - machine (M2M)
micropayments as a result of low transaction costs.
Therefore, following the first Bitcoin Lightning Network white paper, published in February 2015, developers have been working on Lightning Network implementations to
enable bitcoin scalability, efficient
micropayments and near - instant transactions.
In Decker's view, off - chain protocols, such as the Lightning Network or Duplex
Micropayment Channels, are desirable for long - term scalability because they evolve much faster and do not rely on consensus from the entire ecosystem to
enable.
«We hope to help solve bitcoin scalability and instant transactions,
enabling bitcoin to encompass all transactions - even many thousands of
micropayments per person,» he concluded.
Further, they iterated the fact that Bitcoin Cash allowed purchasers to send payments with significantly lower bitcoin miner fees which would
enable the company to continue accepting
micropayments.