'Poketoshi' Game Brings Nintendo's Pokemon Onto Bitcoin Lightning Network

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Published Jun 19, 2018 08:53AM ET

Updated Jun 19, 2018 10:01AM ET

'Poketoshi' Game Brings Nintendo's Pokemon Onto Bitcoin Lightning Network

Portuguese software engineer João Almeida has created ‘Poketoshi,’ a platform that allows users to play Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game on the Lightning Network (LN), The Next Web reports today, June 19.

Lightning Network is a second-layer solution to Bitcoin’s scalability limitations, opening payment channels between users that keep the majority of transactions off-chain, turning to the underlying blockchain only to record the net results.

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