Bitcoin’s ‘Lightning Torch’ Has Blazed Through 37 Countries So Far | CoinDesk

The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch.”

The effort is intended to show the value of bitcoin’s lightning network – an up-and-coming technology that is experimental and hard to use so far, but it does offer improvements over today’s most common payment systems by allowing users to pass money around the world quickly and without a third party, unlike Mastercard and Paypal.