Portuguese software engineer João Almeida has created ‘Poketoshi,’ a platform that enables users to play Nintendo’s widespread Pokémon game on the Lightning Network (LN), consecutive internet reports today, June 19.
Lightning Network could be a second-layer answer to Bitcoin’s quantifiability limitations, opening payment channels between users that keep the bulk of transactions off-chain, turning to the underlying blockchain solely to record the net results.
Almeida’s Poketoshi uses LN along with the live streaming video platform Twitch, which permits users to act with the game via an online chat room - as within the existing ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ series.
Poketoshi implements a Lightning Network-enabled virtual controller for users to enter their play commands, charging them ten Satoshi per command, one Satoshi being adequate to a one hundred millionth of one bitcoin.
Payments are created through OpenNode, a Lightning-enabled Bitcoin (BTC) payment processor. the game is thus a playful manner of testing the Lightning protocol’s ambition to facilitate off-chain instant BTC payments at high volume.
As The Next internet notes, many Poketoshi users are already creating wry allusions to the infamous competition between Bitcoin cash (BCH) and LN advocates, with the previous controversy that the BCH hard fork could be a better answer to Bitcoin’s scalability issue than the LN second-layer resolution.
In Poketoshi users’ tweets, an in-game rival avatar named ‘BCash’ suffers a bitter fate on the new LN-enabled playing platform:
In february this year, Laszlo Hanyecz, the person who completed the world’s first documented BTC dealings for a physical item in 2010 by paying 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, recurrent his historic purchase with Lightning Network - with the caveat that he had to urge his friend in London to “subcontract” out the pizza delivery to a neighborhood pizza place in order to pay using LN, given that “pizza/bitcoin atomic swap software” was so far inaccessible.
In March, LN created major steps towards mainstream adoption by seeing its first mainnet product implementation go live, following that many more user-oriented tools have come back online from non-public developers.
The first user mobile wallet designed for Lightning Network launched april 4.
Lightning Network could be a second-layer answer to Bitcoin’s quantifiability limitations, opening payment channels between users that keep the bulk of transactions off-chain, turning to the underlying blockchain solely to record the net results.
Almeida’s Poketoshi uses LN along with the live streaming video platform Twitch, which permits users to act with the game via an online chat room - as within the existing ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ series.
Poketoshi implements a Lightning Network-enabled virtual controller for users to enter their play commands, charging them ten Satoshi per command, one Satoshi being adequate to a one hundred millionth of one bitcoin.
Payments are created through OpenNode, a Lightning-enabled Bitcoin (BTC) payment processor. the game is thus a playful manner of testing the Lightning protocol’s ambition to facilitate off-chain instant BTC payments at high volume.
As The Next internet notes, many Poketoshi users are already creating wry allusions to the infamous competition between Bitcoin cash (BCH) and LN advocates, with the previous controversy that the BCH hard fork could be a better answer to Bitcoin’s scalability issue than the LN second-layer resolution.
In Poketoshi users’ tweets, an in-game rival avatar named ‘BCash’ suffers a bitter fate on the new LN-enabled playing platform:
In february this year, Laszlo Hanyecz, the person who completed the world’s first documented BTC dealings for a physical item in 2010 by paying 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, recurrent his historic purchase with Lightning Network - with the caveat that he had to urge his friend in London to “subcontract” out the pizza delivery to a neighborhood pizza place in order to pay using LN, given that “pizza/bitcoin atomic swap software” was so far inaccessible.
In March, LN created major steps towards mainstream adoption by seeing its first mainnet product implementation go live, following that many more user-oriented tools have come back online from non-public developers.
The first user mobile wallet designed for Lightning Network launched april 4.
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