<p><strong>Yes</strong>, as of writing, there is an <strong>overwhelmingly positive sense</strong> of how things are performing thus far - more than 800 nodes with 1600 channels are already on the main net, and micro transactions exchanged more than ~40.000 USD. 
It is unclear what you mean by "the solution which BTC has been waiting for". Who is BTC? The community, using bitcoins?</p>

<p>The solution can be SEGWIT, Lightning, SCHNORR sigs, Smart contracts ... ??</p>

<p>Maybe you talk about blocksize, or the fee peak problem in December, which has been discussed in several channels, with many politics involved. This peak has meanwhile reduced to normal values, and doesn't exist anymore <a href="https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,3m" rel="nofollow noreferrer">(see here)</a>. There is also a common sense, that with future lightning adoption this will not re-occur. </p>

<p>I want to stress the point, that lightning is on mainnet, but at a very, very early stage. It is not recommended to be used by newbies, it is more for experts to see behaviour in real world (after extensive tests in test environments). </p>

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2018-02-22T12:11:38.133Z
I even read some comments elsewhere that I took to mean that the actual operation of lightning is not even finalised yet.
Willtech
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2018-02-22T11:01:23.203Z
pebwindkraft
<p>I realize that we are still very early in the deployment of Lightning network, but is there a sense of how things have been performing thus far? Is this the solution which BTC has been waiting for? I'm hoping to get a sense from anyone who is well knowledgeable about the project's development.</p>

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2018-02-22T09:42:21.783Z
I'm afraid this question is quite broad and undefined, definitions such as "success" differ greatly from person to person, and it's not really clear what you're asking. Lightning is doing really well so far, but you'll need to ask a more specific question about it
meshcollider
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2018-02-22T17:03:14.297Z
Sorry for the broad question. I'm more interested in eliciting feedback from people knowledgable about the project to provide a opinion about if it is achieving the objectives it set out to accomplish. A specific question I would have is does the fact that there will be very few connections on the side chain initially slow/prevent the processing down to the point that the project is in danger of not catching on?
kawanaCrypto
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2018-02-23T03:10:16.667Z
Quick note that lightning is very different from a sidechain
meshcollider
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2018-03-06T09:59:16.257Z
Might be a better question for [\[lightning-dev\]](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev).
Willtech
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What's the sense of how lightning network is performing?
kawanaCrypto
# What's the sense of how lightning network is performing?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-22)

I realize that we are still very early in the deployment of Lightning network, but is there a sense of how things have been performing thus far? Is this the solution which BTC has been waiting for? I'm hoping to get a sense from anyone who is well knowledgeable about the project's development.

**Tags:** lightning-network

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I'm afraid this question is quite broad and undefined, definitions such as "success" differ greatly from person to person, and it's not really clear what you're asking. Lightning is doing really well so far, but you'll need to ask a more specific question about it  
> **username_0**: Sorry for the broad question. I'm more interested in eliciting feedback from people knowledgable about the project to provide a opinion about if it is achieving the objectives it set out to accomplish. A specific question I would have is does the fact that there will be very few connections on the side chain initially slow/prevent the processing down to the point that the project is in danger of not catching on?  
> **username_1**: Quick note that lightning is very different from a sidechain  
> **username_2**: Might be a better question for [\[lightning-dev\]](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev).  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2018-02-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

**Yes**, as of writing, there is an **overwhelmingly positive sense** of how things are performing thus far - more than 800 nodes with 1600 channels are already on the main net, and micro transactions exchanged more than ~40.000 USD.
It is unclear what you mean by "the solution which BTC has been waiting for". Who is BTC? The community, using bitcoins?

The solution can be SEGWIT, Lightning, SCHNORR sigs, Smart contracts ... ??

Maybe you talk about blocksize, or the fee peak problem in December, which has been discussed in several channels, with many politics involved. This peak has meanwhile reduced to normal values, and doesn't exist anymore [(see here)](https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,3m). There is also a common sense, that with future lightning adoption this will not re-occur.

I want to stress the point, that lightning is on mainnet, but at a very, very early stage. It is not recommended to be used by newbies, it is more for experts to see behaviour in real world (after extensive tests in test environments).

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: I even read some comments elsewhere that I took to mean that the actual operation of lightning is not even finalised yet.  

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