Part of this effort, the company has been supporting the development and implementation of the Lightning Network for well over a year. Bitfury has tested a Bitfury upgrade on the current bitcoin protocol, ahead of the eagerly awaited segregated witness (segwit) activation – set to be be live within a month . In one demonstrations carried out on the main net, Bitfury carried out a transaction from two Blockchain node to the next, before conducting a single-hop transaction, suggesting Bitfury could deploy its Lightning network whether segwit happens or not. However, Lightning , the CEO of Bitfury , said the company is "fully committed to segwit’s implementation".
Bitfury has tested a Bitfury upgrade on the current bitcoin protocol, ahead of the eagerly awaited segregated witness (segwit) activation – set to be be live within a month . In one demonstrations carried out on the main net, Bitfury carried out a transaction from two Blockchain node to the next, before conducting a single-hop transaction, suggesting Bitfury could deploy its Lightning network whether segwit happens or not. However, Lightning , the CEO of Bitfury , said the company is "fully committed to segwit’s implementation".