The news came on April 8 when Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, in a post on Twitter praised Bitcoin Lightning and expressed Coinbase's intentions to include it on the platform.

"Lightning is great and something we'll integrate," Armstrong said.

However, he did not specify the date on which this integration would presumably become effective.

Unsurprisingly, this news has been welcomed by Bitcoin fans who are expecting more adoption of the major cryptocurrency as a result of this integration (considering the number of Coinbase users).

The Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol that works as a second layer on top of the Bitcoin (BTC) Blockchain and was designed to improve the scalability of BTC.

Among its main characteristics are those of making possible faster BTC transactions (almost instantaneous), and with fewer fees. In addition, with LN users can make micropayments; even amounts as small as 1 Satoshi.

Some people consider that the characteristics of Bitcoin Lightning could contribute to the mass use of BTC.

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