I went from 6577 yesterday with WT , Ninja , Samurai , Wraith and Nurse . Some Cait along the way in samurai ' s spot . 3 bobo . I ' m level 81 . <| sep |> I ' m a tabaholic and I needed this . Opens link to another tab <| sep |> I WAS ABOUT TO RIOT THANKS GOD <| sep |> if they make that much they shouldn ' t complain about bad tippers '<| sep |> Lightning is actually a separate Layer 2 network that is built on top of the Bitcoin network . I think you ' re blending the two concepts . Bitcoin transactions bounce around until a miner includes them in a block , at which point they ' re pretty much final . There ' s a new block every 10 minutes , so if the fee for the transaction makes the miner happy , they will include it in their next block . With Lightning Network LN , you have to open a payment channel maybe with your exchange . This requires a traditional Bitcoin transaction like described above . Let ' s say you open an LN channel with 1 BTC , and you want spend spend 0 . 1 BTC on a Steam game . When you send that transaction , your wallet will reach out to anyone you have a channel open with your exchange , or friends , etc and they will reach out to their channel connections . Eventually , a route and feesperhop will be calculated between your wallet and Steam ' s wallet . Now , this actually happens very very fast , and fees are expected to be extremely low . There are no block chain delays because this transaction isn ' t sent via the block chain at all . The only time that Bitcoin touches the block chain with Lightning is when you are opening or closing channels . In summary , the Lightning Network will not require waiting for confirmations between each node , or even for each transaction . If you want to learn more , check out the three part Lightning Network series on bitcoinmagazine . com , or find some videos by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja .