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Lightning Network Payment Pathfinding blog

Lightning Network Payment Pathfinding

Lightning Network FAQ

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 blog

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 blog

Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 3

Lightning Network Use Cases

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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 blog

Harnessing Lightning Network for AI Innovation – Pt 2

Lightning Network Use Cases

5 mins 36 secs Read

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 blog

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 blog

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 blog

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 blog

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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Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network blog

Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network

Bitcoin Education

The Lighting Network enabled cheap and fast transactions using Bitcoin, breaking the stigma that you couldn’t buy a cup of coffee with Bitcoin, but six years after the...

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What Are TLS Certificates and Why are They Needed? blog

What Are TLS Certificates and Why are They Needed?

TLS stands for “Transport Layer Security”. This protocol ensures privacy and data security between two communicating applications. A TLS certificate is a type of digital certificate that provides...

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What are Macaroons, and How do They Work blog

What are Macaroons, and How do They Work

Macaroons are a modern form of bearer tokens. Offering a unique set of features. They have become a crucial part of the decentralized systems, particularly in Lightning Labs...

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What is Splicing and How Does it Work? blog

What is Splicing and How Does it Work?

What is Splicing A Lightning payment channel is limited by the total capacity committed to a payment channel. This means that the channel can only move payments as...

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