Bitcoin Education

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’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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Why You Should Run a Lightning Node
Welcome to part one of setting up a bitcoin lightning node. In this introduction, I will be attempting to answer one of the most common questions by those...
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What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels?
A payment channel is a mechanism that enables the establishment a financial relationship between two nodes on the Lightning Network. These nodes are referred to as channel partners...
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4 Real Use Cases for Lightning Network
This article will go through several examples of what I expect the Lightning Network to provide the internet and the world in the coming years as creative people...
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What is Lightning Network Capacity
Bitcoin’s Lightning network operates on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. For layer 2 to function and deliver global, instant, and zero-fee transactions, nodes must join the network and...
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How many transactions can the lightning network handle?
The Lightning Network is capable of handling millions of payments per second. I want to create a practical and easy-to-understand breakdown of how lightning operates, how nodes connect...
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How to start a Bitcoin-Focused Business
This guide will give you some fast-track tips to help you start or start shifting into a Bitcoin-focused business....
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Bitcoin for Gun Shops
The Problem: Firearm ownership is routinely under threat from the policy makers in DC. The US Dollar is being weaponized against legitimate businesses such as those that deal...
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The Low Time Preference Low-Cost Routing Node Guide
Learn from our Support Engineer Nate, how to create a low time preference node you can spend from which transforms to a routing node that earns sats over...
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How to run an effective Merchant Lightning Node
We will be talking about basic goals, initial setup, interaction with point of sale front ends such as BTCPayServer, and how to manage the liquidity. There are three...
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Lightning Node “Type” Series #1: The Consumer Node or How to Live on Lightning
Living on Bitcoin has never been easier. You can pay your bills with bitcoin on Bitrefill, top up your google or apple-pay with paywithmoon, or buy giftcards with...
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