The Lightning Network has been hailed as the solution to bitcoin’s scalability challenges and, so far, the off-chain payments solution has managed to gain substantial traction. Since its launch in March 2018, the Lightning Network has grown to a network capacity of over $6 million in BTC and over 35,000 off-chain payment channels, according to data from 1ML.
In this guide, you will discover the best Bitcoin Lightning Network wallets that you can use to send and receive bitcoin micro-payments through the Lightning Network’s off-chain channels.
Best Lightning Network Wallets
We have compiled a list of the best lightning network wallets that are currently available for bitcoin users. To rank the wallets, we have used criteria such as the number of supported operating systems, level of privacy, and user-friendliness, and number of Twitter followers, among others.
Important Notice
Most of the above-mentioned wallets are still running in beta mode and may have bugs. Hence, it is best not the store a large amount of bitcoin in any of these wallets.
At the current stage of development of these wallets and the Lightning Network itself, it is better to use these LN wallets to play around with off-chain bitcoin transactions and their underlying technology, and use established bitcoin wallets to store large holdings.
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