Big day for bitcoin, Lightning goes live on mainnet! ⚡

Lightning Labs announced the release of lnd 0.4-beta ! Which marks the 4th major release of lnd and the first Lightning mainnet beta, an important milestone.

With this release, we've got a bunch of optimization and considerable feature set, deeper cross-implementation compatibility, a new specialized wallet seed, comprehensive fault-tolerance logic, a multitude of bug fixes, and much more!

It is the first release of lnd that has the option to run on Bitcoin’s mainnet, with the safety, security, and reliability features necessary for real-world, real money usage!