“The benefit of Lightning isn’t just that you possibly can scale up bitcoin for billions of individuals, or drive the transaction value to just about nothing, but additionally, the ethos of bitcoin is to go very rigorously and never transfer quick on the bottom layer with out the common consensus, however in Lightning, you’ll be able to transfer far more aggressively creating performance and take extra dangers with the functions than you’ll be able to with the underlying bitcoin layer,” Saylor stated.