Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Bitcoin’s former posterboy and now its number-one persona non grata, said that the Bitcoin network could meet rising demand if its users adopted the Lightning Network, a payments network that makes Bitcoin transactions quicker and cheaper.
“Bitcoin hashing (aka mining) energy usage is starting to exceed that of medium-sized countries. Almost impossible for small hashers to succeed without those massive economies of scale,” he tweeted today. “For now, Lightning is needed.”
Achieving truly decentralized finance – power to the people – is a noble & important goal.
Layer count depends on projected bandwidth & compute, both rising rapidly, which means single layer network can carry all human transactions in future imo.
For now, Lightning is needed.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2021
Lightning is a piece of software that processes Bitcoin transactions outside of the Bitcoin blockchain to lighten the load on the network.
Without Light
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