Crypto News: Latest Lightning Code Release Trolls With a ‘Block Size’ Increase
The latest code version for the lightning network – often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments – includes a “block size increase.”
One of the most active lightning implementations, LND, pushed out its newest “minor” release, version 0.5.2, of its beta code on Wednesday. Though it includes several changes from many contributors, mostly with the goal of making the still-experimental payment system easier for end-users, the feature that’s sure to stick out to bitcoin veterans a “block size increase,” bringing to mind the parameter that the bitcoin community went to war over a couple years back.
But don’t worry: all hell isn’t about to break loose, as the feature is not really related.
“It’s for the command line tool to be able to get a snapshot of the network. Thought I’d troll with the title lol,“ Lightning Labs developer Olaoluwa Osuntokun told CoinDesk.
Each node on the network stores a “graph” of its view of other lightning nodes on the network. That’s so that when a user sends a payment to someone else, the node can determine the best route to go through to reach its destination.
However, the graph has been ballooning as more people test out the lightning network, so developers have been brushing up against the limits. Thus, the team increased the “block size” of the graph, from 4MB to 50MB, so that developers can grab a larger snapshot.
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Source: CoinDesk
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