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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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What’s the difference between a Bitcoin Node and a Lightning Node? blog

What’s the difference between a Bitcoin Node and a Lightning Node?

A “node” is the term used to designate a participant on a peer-to-peer network. Unlike the usual “client-server” applications that prevail on the internet today, where servers do...

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BOLT 12 – Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience blog

BOLT 12 – Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience

Limitations If you use the Lightning Network regularly, or if you read our article about LNURL, you might be familiar with the user experience limitations that the Lightning...

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Multipart Payments – AMP/MMP blog

Multipart Payments – AMP/MMP

In this article, we’ll go through multipart payments in the Lightning Network, a critical evolution that overcomes single-part payment restrictions and allows more significant amounts by splitting them...

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LNURL – Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience blog

LNURL – Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience

When you think of LNURL the first thing that may come into your mind might be an internet identifier, like satoshi@voltage.com, or a static QR Code that can...

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Penalty Transactions on Lightning blog

Penalty Transactions on Lightning

To scale Bitcoin payments, the Lightning Network was designed such that peers can exchange payments off-chain through a payment channel. In essence, a payment channel is a financial...

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Point Time-Locked Contracts blog

Point Time-Locked Contracts

Hash Time-Locked Contract Issues The Lightning Network, as it is today enables payment routing by using the Hash Time-Locked contract, the HTLC. In simple terms, this contract enables...

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Lightning Node Management – Handling High On-Chain Fees blog

Lightning Node Management – Handling High On-Chain Fees

As Bitcoin adoption increases, demand for block space will also rise, inevitably resulting in higher on-chain fees. In this scenario, users will lean more toward Lightning Network for...

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How do Lightning Network Fees Work? blog

How do Lightning Network Fees Work?

Lightning Network Routing The lightning network achieves high-frequency payments by taking payments off-chain. This means that information about a transaction is not broadcasted to the whole network as...

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