Those signing the letter also called for greater collaboration with the team behind Bitcoin Core, though the wording notably does not preclude those involved from running
test versions of the Bitcoin Classic network.
Not exact matches
But since most
of these companies are working on
versions of Lightning that rely on Segregated Witness, these
tests were limited to
Bitcoin's testnet and Litecoin.
After an extensive
testing period on the
Bitcoin testnet, this is the first
version of Bitcoin Core to include Segregated Witness for the
Bitcoin mainnet.
Segregated Witness, which is currently being
tested and reviewed in the form
of a pull request to
Bitcoin Core, is a big step forward for these sorts
of changes, and BIP 9 (
Version Bits) should also be helpful as a new method
of deployment for soft forks.
Because litecoin and
bitcoin already support
test versions of the Lightning Network, the group successfully
tested transactions using the LND Lightning Network implementation from Lightning Labs.
With momentum firmly behind them at this stage, and after a few more months
of testing the Core, developers announced that
version 0.13.0
of the
Bitcoin Core software would include SegWit code, albeit in a pre-activation state that could be triggered with a subsequent update.
Dubbed SegNet, the latest
version of the
Bitcoin test network includes several improvements over its predecessors, and is available to anyone who wants to try it or experiment.
There are many variants
of Coinjoin including Private Send, which is used by dash, and Coin Shuffle; Cash Shuffle is the
version currently being
tested with
bitcoin cash.
The developers
of the Lightning Network protocol announced that
version 1.0 RC
of the Lightning protocol specification along with a successful cross-implementation
test on
Bitcoin mainnet.
A hasty transition to a new
version without a proper cycle
of testing and adoption by
bitcoin - based businesses could result in significant losses for users and companies alike and disrupt the whole
bitcoin ecosystem.
Topping off this great news was the release
of the «Lightning Network Daemon» (LND), the final fully -
tested beta
version of the code that has been deployed on
Bitcoin and Litecoin blockchains.
The next steps include additional
testing, release
of another
bitcoin core
version (0.12.2) and agreement
of the miners to implement SegWit through the acceptance
of the new
bitcoin core
version.SegWit, in terms
of the developers, is a «soft fork».