Lightspark 正在开发多种基于闪电网络的解决方案，使通过比特币转移价值变得更加容易

许多公司都在致力于 LN 的开发，Lightspark 就是其中之一，其联合创始人兼首席执行官是著名的 David Marcus

Yesterday’s news on Lightning Network is a development that could potentially change the future of Bitcoin in the upcoming years.

昨天有关闪电网络的新闻是一项可能会在未来几年改变比特币未来的发展。

The Bitcoin blockchain does not have native support for complex smart contracts, and it has some strong limitations on the supported throughput (TPS).

比特币区块链本身不支持复杂的智能合约，并且对支持的吞吐量（TPS）有一些严格的限制。

In order to evolve, Bitcoin needs to leverage layer-2 solutions, just as Ethereum is also partially doing, and Lightning Network (LN) is by far the main second layer of Bitcoin.

为了发展，比特币需要利用第二层解决方案，就像以太坊也在做的那样，闪电网络（LN）是迄今为止比特币主要的第二层。

The latest news on the Bitcoin Lightning Network

比特币闪电网络的最新消息

Many companies are working on developments on LN, and among them is Lightspark, whose co-founder and CEO is the famous David Marcus who was responsible for leading the development and launch of Facebook’s crypto project (Libra) which was later aborted by the company.

许多公司都在致力于LN的开发，其中就有Lightspark，其联合创始人兼首席执行官是著名的David Marcus，他曾负责领导Facebook加密项目（Libra）的开发和启动，该项目后来被该公司中止。

Marcus actually started his high-level career at PayPal, and then from there he moved to Facebook, even before the latter changed its name to Meta.

马库斯实际上在 PayPal 开始了他的高层职业生涯，然后从那里转到 Facebook，甚至在后者更名为 Meta 之前。

He is passionate about Bitcoin, and when Facebook decided to abort the Libra project, mainly due to regulatory issues, he decided to dedicate himself to Bitcoin by founding Lightspark.

他对比特币充满热情，当 Facebook 主要由于监管问题而决定中止 Libra 项目时，他决定通过创立 Lightspark 致力于比特币。

The news is that Lightspark is working on several solutions based on Lightning Network with the aim of making it easier for institutions and ordinary people to transfer value via Bitcoin.

有消息称，Lightspark正在开发多种基于闪电网络的解决方案，旨在让机构和普通民众更容易通过比特币转移价值。

Another co-founder of the project, Kevin Hurley, who is also the CTO, stated it.

该项目的另一位联合创始人兼首席技术官 Kevin Hurley 表示。

Lightspark is not only the name of the company, but also the name of their Lightning Service Provider (LSP) that offers an enterprise-level infrastructure to enable even companies to make global payments via LN.

Lightspark 不仅是公司的名称，也是其闪电服务提供商 (LSP) 的名称，该提供商提供企业级基础设施，使公司甚至能够通过闪电网络进行全球支付。

Hurley also comes from Facebook’s crypto project, which was renamed Diem before it was shut down.

Hurley 也来自 Facebook 的加密项目，该项目在关闭前更名为 Diem。

In fact, he stated that with Lightspark they are trying to carry forward the vision they had in Diem, which is to “truly open up the financial world, transforming it into something where you can send money as easily as you send data packets today”.

事实上，他表示，通过 Lightspark，他们正试图推进他们在 Diem 的愿景，即“真正开放金融世界，将其转变为可以像今天发送数据包一样轻松发送资金的东西” 。

Hurley added that some of the lessons learned from the failure of the Diem project are that there is a need for something that is truly decentralized and neutral, and that a platform with a lot of liquidity is also required. These are aspects for which Bitcoin now seems perfect, so it is no coincidence that they chose LN as the platform on which to develop their project.

Hurley 补充道，从 Diem 项目失败中吸取的一些教训是，需要真正去中心化和中立的东西，还需要一个具有大量流动性的平台。这些都是比特币现在看起来很完美的方面，因此他们选择闪电网络作为开发项目的平台并非巧合。

Among other things, a few weeks ago, Hurley himself had announced on his official X profile that Nubank has selected Lightspark to bring Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Addresses to its platform.

除此之外，几周前，赫尔利本人在其官方 X 简介中宣布，Nubank 已选择 Lightspark 将比特币闪电网络和通用货币地址引入其平台。

We're so excited to announce that @nubank has selected @lightspark to bring the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Universal Money Addresses to its platform and customers. We are absolutely delighted to work with such a stellar team to bring a much-needed solution to their customers!…

我们非常高兴地宣布 @nubank 已选择 @lightspark 将比特币闪电网络和通用货币地址引入其平台和客户。我们非常高兴与这样一个优秀的团队合作，为他们的客户带来急需的解决方案！...

Nubank is not just a Brazilian bank, but it is also the largest fintech company in all of Latin America, with more than 80 million customers and a valuation exceeding 40 billion dollars.

Nubank不仅是一家巴西银行，也是拉丁美洲最大的金融科技公司，拥有超过8000万客户，估值超过400亿美元。

The latest big news at Lightspark: a more inclusive financial system thanks to Bitcoin Lightning Network

Lightspark 最新重大新闻：比特币闪电网络打造更具包容性的金融体系

Lightspark is not just an LSP, because it also offers an SDK (Software Development Kit), liquidity management through routing nodes, and API services.

Lightspark 不仅仅是一个 LSP，因为它还提供 SDK（软件开发工具包）、通过路由节点进行流动性管理以及 API 服务。

Their idea is to provide users, such as companies, with a platform that simplifies the use of various Bitcoin protocols and currency exchanges, thus solving what is the single biggest obstacle to the use of these new technologies.

他们的想法是为公司等用户提供一个平台，简化各种比特币协议和货币兑换的使用，从而解决使用这些新技术的最大障碍。

The concept is that the management of all the complexity is delegated to the LSP, so that the user can focus on the simpler and more important activities. Additionally, the use of a properly configured LSP also resolves the compliance issues of transactions with current laws.

其概念是将所有复杂性的管理委托给 LSP，以便用户可以专注于更简单和更重要的活动。此外，使用正确配置的 LSP 还可以解决交易与现行法律的合规性问题。

Additionally, Lightspark provides a Universal Money Address (UMA) that serves to uniquely identify users’ accounts and to switch from one currency to another.

此外，Lightspark 还提供通用货币地址 (UMA)，用于唯一标识用户帐户并从一种货币转换为另一种货币。

The other developments

其他事态发展

Obviously, however, there is not only Lightspark that is developing on LN.

然而显然，LN 上开发的不仅仅是 Lightspark。

For example, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs recently during an interview talked about the new proposal Great Script Restoration Project by Rusty Russell, which aims to restore previously disabled opcodes, such as OP_CAT, to expand the scripting possibilities on the Bitcoin network.

例如，闪电实验室的 Ryan Gentry 最近在接受采访时谈到了 Rusty Russell 的新提案“伟大的脚本恢复项目”，该项目旨在恢复以前禁用的操作码，例如 OP_CAT，以扩展比特币网络上的脚本编写可能性。

Perhaps the biggest current technical limitation of Bitcoin is precisely the one related to scripting, given that its layer-1 does not natively support complex smart contracts.

也许比特币当前最大的技术限制正是与脚本相关的限制，因为它的第一层本身并不支持复杂的智能合约。

The solution, however, is not to distort the layer-1 of Bitcoin, which does few things but extremely well, but to allow the development of layer-2 that can do them with the same level of security.

然而，解决方案不是扭曲比特币的第 1 层（它做的事情很少但非常好），而是允许开发可以以相同安全级别完成这些任务的第 2 层。

The Great Script Restoration aims to provide developers with a more versatile toolkit that allows them a wide range of new functionalities.

Great Script Restoration 旨在为开发人员提供更通用的工具包，使他们能够获得广泛的新功能。

The problem is that when talking about Bitcoin, it is always very difficult to obtain a broad consensus for protocol changes. Therefore, it will not be easy at all to pass the idea that the Great Script

问题在于，在谈论比特币时，总是很难就协议变更达成广泛共识。所以，要传《大书》这个想法，绝非易事。