Dual Funded Lightning Channels
Introduction The Lightning Network works as a channel-based payment system. You can think of a Lightning Channel as an hourglass, where the sand represents bitcoins that are locked...
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Async Payments on The Lightning Network
Asynchronous payments within the Lightning Network refer to transactions initiated even when the recipient is offline. These payments are securely held by an intermediary node and are only...
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Understanding BOLTs
BOLTs ensure that different Lightning Network versions can interact seamlessly. Much like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) sets web standards, BOLTs offer a unified guideline for developers....
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Doppler – A Lightning Domain-Specific Language
A breakdown of Doppler, a domain-specific language for the Lightning Network. Doppler enables its users to easily experiment with and test against various Lightning implementations....
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Lightning Network Payment Pathfinding
Nodes aim to find the optimal path to send payments, channel graphs play a role for future decision making. Easily learn how this functions below....
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Understanding Trampoline Payments
Introduction When Alice pays Bob through the Lightning Network, her node will find a route to pay Bob based on its current knowledge of the network. This is...
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Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 3
Inspired by Hivemind’s thesis on “How (Actually) Open AI Wins,” this series will explore how AI companies and projects can harness the power of the Lightning Network to...
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Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 2
Inspired by Hivemind’s thesis on “How (Actually) Open AI Wins,” this series will explore how AI companies and projects can harness the power of the Lightning Network to...
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Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 1
Inspired by Hivemind’s thesis on “How (Actually) Open AI Wins,” this series will explore how AI companies and projects can harness the power of the Lightning Network to...
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Taproot Assets: Issuing Assets on Bitcoin
Critics have always targeted Bitcoin for its lack of support for assets. Lightning Labs, the same company behind LND chose to address this issue. At the end of...
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How Lightning Channel Rebalances Work
An easy to understand breakdown of how Lightning Channel rebalances work for the Bitcoin Lightning Network....
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Lightning Channel Coinjoins
Bitcoin’s privacy guarantees come from its pseudonymous addresses. They contain no information about the person who owns it. It’s just a human-readable representation of the smart contract that...
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