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> the Lightning network, which is currently a white paper

Lightning is working code, not a white paper:

https://github.com/elementsproject/lightning

Lightning is 5 different working codebases, developed by different groups of developers in different languages under the same protocol specification [0].

[0] https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc

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