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What the Voltage Crew Built On #FOSSFriday 1/27/2023 blog

What the Voltage Crew Built On #FOSSFriday 1/27/2023

FOSS Friday

It has been a few months since we wrote an update on FOSS Fridays at Voltage. Here is a quick update for Jan 2023....

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Where Does the Yield Come From? preview

Where Does the Yield Come From?

The age old question. Where does the yield come from? Lorenzo breaks that down for us. #LightningNetwork...

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How does an HTLC work? blog

How does an HTLC work?

One of the requirements for the lightning network to work is the establishment of secure payment channels between users that allows trustless off-chain transactions and the ability to...

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Why do Lightning nodes need inbound and outbound liquidity? blog

Why do Lightning nodes need inbound and outbound liquidity?

There are two possible ways of answering this question: with a brief and general answer or with a detailed and elaborated one. Let’s go through the general answer...

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What are the differences between LND and CLN? blog

What are the differences between LND and CLN?

The Lightning Network protocol is formalized in specification documents called BOLTs (Basis of Lightning Technologies). All organizations that maintain Lightning Network node implementations must follow the specifications described...

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LNbits Now Available on Voltage blog

LNbits Now Available on Voltage

Feature Updates

Using LNbits on Voltage is so easy. Simply navigate to the Dashboards tab on your node's page, find LNbits right below ThunderHub, and click Create Dashboard....

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FOSS Friday #4 at Voltage blog

FOSS Friday #4 at Voltage

FOSS Friday

Open source is an essential piece of Bitcoin. Our bitcoin-focused team loves open-source, and we want to give back to the open-source realm. So, every other Friday, the...

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What the Voltage Crew Built On #FOSSFriday #3 blog

What the Voltage Crew Built On #FOSSFriday #3

FOSS Friday

Our bitcoin-focused team loves open-source, and we want to give back to the open-source realm. So, every other Friday, the Voltage crew spends the day working on open...

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How Taproot Improves The Lightning Network blog

How Taproot Improves The Lightning Network

Bitcoin Education

How Taproot will affect Lightning Network with efficiency, privacy, and usability....

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Lightning Node Beginnings, Part 1 blog

Lightning Node Beginnings, Part 1

We will be going over a few different technical concepts, which are at the core of running a successful Lightning routing node....

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As Bitcoin conquers 50k, many large companies eye cryptocurrency moves blog

As Bitcoin conquers 50k, many large companies eye cryptocurrency moves

Bitcoin’s strong start to the year continued this week as it reached 50k on Tuesday morning. Bitcoin can no longer be ignored and has finally caught the eye...

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Life of Lightning: A brief timeline of the Lightning Network’s history blog

Life of Lightning: A brief timeline of the Lightning Network’s history

The Lightning Network was first conceived six years ago. Let's take a quick look back at how far it has come in just over half a decade....

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