In this post, we hope to surface the pain points in our continuous testing of the BTC on-chain/lightning network(LN) ecosystem.
As we discover pain points, we will highlight these here for consideration by developers to come up with solutions.
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- 1 Feb 2019: LN – merchant’s LN node/channel. A merchant will need to maintain an active incoming channel that has sufficient liquidity e.g. in a Spark wallet, it will be displayed as a blue bar as “Receivable” with the corresponding amount of BTC reflected. The merchant will have to ensure that this is being topped up in order to receive payments. One of the methods is to pay out from the underlying wallet so that the “Receivable” amount will increase(topping up). Presently, the monitoring and topping up are performed manually by the merchant. This could be automated to ease the pain.
- 21 Feb 2019: High consumption of electricity to mine BTC block chain. It has been said that it is an energy intensive process. There are many great minds in the sustainable energy space, and it would not be a surprise if a solution to mine more efficiently is already lurking out there.
- Gift cards with LN BTC. How to send such cards for promotional purposes?