You Can Now Run a Litecoin Lightning Network Node On Your Mac

Mac users who have been waiting to run a Lightning Node can finally rest easy - the tutorial on how to install a Litecoin mainnet Lightning Network node on Mac has been officially released.

The guide consists of all the commands and codes needed to create the Lightning node on a Mac.

The Lightning network was designed to make transactions faster and cheaper by moving them to a layer above the blockchain.

As a competitor to Bitcoin, it's not surprising that the Litecoin Lightning network is one of the most developed, working alongside Lightning Labs to release its network at the same time as Bitcoin.

Many projects are catching up, with other development teams taking serious strides to add Lightning to their networks.

The most recent projects to embrace Lightning was Stellar, which added Lightning to its 2018 roadmap in January.

Jeremy Rubin, a leader in the development of Stellar's Lightning Network, said that Lightning is a requirement for any platform that wants to remain relevant for verifying transactions.

When Bitcoin's Lightning network comes online fully, any community not preparing scalable off-chain solutions is going to get left in the payments dust.

Despite the popularity of the Lightning Network, not all blockchain projects are using the tech in the same way as Bitcoin.

Despite Lightning and other off-chain solutions becoming the answer for improving network speeds and efficiency, there are still some projects who believe that scaling blockchains at the base layer is possible and desirable.