Lighting Network does indeed exist today. You can use it right now.
Download the desktop app and try it out: https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-app
It's early, but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Download the desktop app and try it out: https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-app
It's early, but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If that is still accurate, it continues to seem to me that Stripe is interested in actually using Lightning on the production Bitcoin blockchain, they just can't do that today.
153 nodes currently on mainnet.