Bitcoin Lightning Network
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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What are Blinded Paths and How do they Work?
Learn how blinded paths operate within the context of the lightning network. This breakdown makes it simple to understand how privacy on Lightning is advancing....
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Introducing Flow 2.0: A New LSP Focused on Just-In-Time Liquidity
An LSP that is focused on making Just In Time liquidity a generally available resource. No longer think inbound capacity or what channels you have....
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What are Negative Fees and how Does it Affect the Lightning Network?
Learn about negative fees and how they impact the lightning network. Negative fees allow a node to pay to forward a payment instead of charging to forward a...
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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?
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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Lightning Privacy for Beginners
The goal of this blog is to educate on what common actions may inadvertently disclose information that you may otherwise not want to be known. ...
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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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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?
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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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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