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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, which inevitably results in higher on-chain fees. In this scenario, users will lean more on Lightning for...

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How do Lightning Network Fees Work? blog

How do Lightning Network Fees Work?

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 with Bitcoin...

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Surge Invoice Management Update blog

Surge Invoice Management Update

Feature Updates

Granular invoice management is here – bringing the art of storytelling to lightning, and a bunch of other stuff. Search Voltage is made up of people who’ve worked...

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Submarine Swaps – How do they work and where they are used? blog

Submarine Swaps – How do they work and where they are used?

Interaction Between Protocols Imagine a scenario where Alice wants to buy a book from Bob’s e-commerce, but Alice only has on-chain funds and Bob only accepts payments through...

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How to use Lightning Node Connect (LNC) on Voltage blog

How to use Lightning Node Connect (LNC) on Voltage

In this walkthrough our Support Engineer Nate breaks down how to use Lightning Node Connect (LNC) on the Voltage Dashboard. Spin up a 7 day trial and start...

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Watchtowers on Lightning Network blog

Watchtowers on Lightning Network

Lightning Network payment channels work by enforcing a “fairness protocol” – a set of rules that incentivize honest collaboration between channel partners. After funding a channel, payments flow...

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Announcing Nostr support on Voltage with NIP05, Lightning Address, and Zaps blog

Announcing Nostr support on Voltage with NIP05, Lightning Address, and Zaps

News

Voltage has launched support for Nostr! We’ve been eagerly watching and participating in the build-out of the Nostr ecosystem. Now, we’re excited to offer our own services to...

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Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes blog

Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes

The Lightning Network uses payment pre-images and payment hashes as essential components of its Hash-Time-Locked Contract (HTLC). The HTLC is a smart contract that enforces a fairness protocol...

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What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels? blog

What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels?

A payment channel is a mechanism that enables the establishment of a financial relationship between two nodes on the Lightning Network. These nodes are referred to as channel...

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