The Mutiny team has been hard at work on Mutiny Web. What is it? Mutiny Web is an experiment to see if they can put a lightning node in the browser. Guess what? They just did!
Witness the future of lightning with Mutiny Web
Did you see it, frens?
The Mutiny team just created the future of lightning. That's right! A full lightning node running inside of a browser. The power of the web & lightning is finally being realized. We have been talking about this on Thriller for over a year. There have been several attempts, but still nothing at this level. 🤯
We got a freaking entire lightning node running inside of a phone's browser! Here's a quick preview of me using it to buy an OP_RETURN pic.twitter.com/ckr14MUDRm
Have you seen the state of the world? Catch up on our last post on the Mutiny team back in August.
If Mutiny Web works, the team can potentially bring a private, sovereign lightning experience to a global audience. The code is also open source, so that any developer could use this as a foundation for a potential project.
Where can I find out more, and when will this get released?
The team has been hard at work releasing updates every week on Bolt.Fun
Mutiny team update: "This week we turned Mutiny Web into an on-chain wallet! We can send and receive using BDK and sync with a blockchain source to find out how rich we are (on testnet). We didn't make as much LDK progress as we would've liked, but we've decided to do it "slow and steady" to make sure we truly understand how we're using LDK. There's a ton of potential complexity in an LDK-based node and we don't want to introduce any undue complexity ourselves due to a shortage of understanding. Our plan is to "pair program" the LDK stuff until it really clicks for all three of us."
Mutiny team update: "This week we were able to connect a mutiny lightning node with another node on the network! This is a huge milestone for us to help validate that we're on the right track and that this might actually work. Our node was able to connect to the peer living on a different device and continue to exchange automatic ping pong's back and forth."
Mutiny team update: "We had a fun monday whiteboard session (pictured) where we mapped out all the work we have left."
Make sure to keep your eyes on this, as the Mutiny team will update everyone with the latest version shown today. Also, if you are voting in the Bolt.Fun hackathon. You know what to do! This team deserves a bitcoin!
The private lightning wallet is coming soon. Join them while you wait.
