Portuguese software engineer João Almeida has created ‘Poketoshi,’ a platform that allows users to play Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game on the , The Next Web today, June 19.
— João Almeida (@joaodealmeida94)
Lightning Network is a second-layer solution to bitcoin’s , opening payment channels between users that keep the majority of transactions off-chain, turning to the underlying blockchain only to record the net results.
Almeida’s Poketoshi uses LN together with the live streaming video platform Twitch, which allows users to interact with the game via an online chat room – as in the existing series.
Poketoshi implements a Lightning Network-enabled virtual controller for users to enter their gaming commands, charging them 10 Satoshi per command, one Satoshi being equal to a one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin.
are made through , a Lightning-enabled (BTC) payment processor. The game is therefore a playful way of testing the Lightning protocol’s ambition to facilitate off-chain instant BTC payments at high volume.
As The Next Web notes, several Poketoshi users are already making wry allusions to the notorious between (BCH) and LN advocates, with the former arguing that the BCH hard fork is a better answer to bitcoin’s scalability issue than the LN .
In Poketoshi users’ tweets, an in-game rival avatar named ‘BCash’ suffers a bitter fate on the new LN-enabled gaming platform:
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— masen (@masen_io)
— bittoq (@bittoquant)
In February this year, Laszlo Hanyecz, the man who completed the world’s first documented BTC transaction for a physical item in 2010 by paying , his historic purchase with Lightning Network – with the caveat that he had to get his friend in London to “subcontract” out the pizza delivery to a local pizza place in order to pay using LN, given that “pizza/bitcoin atomic swap software” was as yet unavailable.
In March, LN made major steps towards mainstream adoption by seeing its first mainnet product implementation , following which user-oriented tools have come online from private developers.
The first user mobile wallet built for Lightning Network April 4.
Published at Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:53:06 +0000
