BitMEX to Showcase Power of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network at Upcoming Crypto Conference

The Lightning Conference, an event focusing on the Bitcoin micro payments scaling solution, Lightning Network, has just announced a novel way to help showcase the power of the technology. The ever-important fuel of all crypto conferences, hot, steaming coffee, will be available for a single satoshi, paid via the Lightning Network, at the Berlin event.

Helping the event with the practical demonstration will be the research department of the Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX. The effort looks to prove that Bitcoin can indeed be used to make small payments.

Who Said You Can’t Buy Coffee With Bitcoin?

As everyone knows, coffee is the backbone of every great technology conference. Often freely available, The Lightning Conference is working with BitMEX to turn the distribution of the much-needed energising elixir into a demonstration of the Lightning Network’s power.

Cups of coffee during the event will come with the token price of a single satoshi. That’s about $0.000083, at the…