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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Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network
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?
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
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?
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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