In an exchange of tweets between Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, and Jack Dorsey, the chief of Block, the former expressed his interest in integrating the Lightning Network onto their platform. Armstrong was responding to a query by Dorsey that accused Coinbase of ignoring Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.
Armstrong stated, “We’re looking into how to best add Lightning. It’s non-trivial, but I think worth doing. I’m all for payments taking off in Bitcoin.”
Bitcoin Lightning Network on Coinbase
In the Twitter exchange between the two industry leaders, Armstrong clarified that he is not ignoring the Bitcoin Lightning Network. He noted, “We’ve onboarded more people to Bitcoin than probably any company in the world.”
In April this year, BeInCrypto reported that Armstrong was keen to integrate the layer 2 scaling solution. Armstrong’s statement came at a time when the network adoption has grown on the back…