Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public.Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name. It includes a wallet, an e-commerce plug-in, a hardware component for a point-of-sale (PoS) terminal, a Lightning node for the new ecosystem and developer tools.For starters, the open-source, cross-platform Peach wallet has all the bells and whistles of your usual Lightning wallet, “including: custom channel opening; the ability to send and receive on-chain and LN payments; and merchant discovery,” Pavel Prikhodko, head of Lightning Peach, told Bitcoin Magazine. Users can establish custom channels with a Lightning public address and the host IP of a peer, and the wallet also comes with a self-curated address book and an option to send recurring/subscription payments.“We continue to investigate ways to streamline the user experience, and we soon plan to present an updated wallet that makes it even more simple for people to use,” Prikhodko continued.Users can connect to Peach Node, Bitfury’s Lightning Network node, with their own nodes or wallets to create payment channels in the Peach ecosystem. Connected to this node, any user will be able to send payments to any other user on the network regardless if they already have an existing channel, while you can still send invoices for payments to wallets that aren’t conne...
