Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine Swaps – CoinDesk

One of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, Electrum, now supports Lightning Network payments. The latest swathe of major changes was released in version 4.0 , one of its biggest upgrades since the Bitcoin wallet launched in 2011. (Note: Since the 4.0 release, some bug fixes have been added .) Lightning payments are seen as the future of Bitcoin because they’re cheaper and would allow many more users to make bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions at once. This makes Electrum the oldest wallet to have …

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