Lightning Network FAQ

Lightning Network Payment Pathfinding
Nodes aim to find the optimal path to send payments, channel graphs play a role for future decision making. Easily learn how this functions below....
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Understanding Hold Invoices on the Lightning Network
Learn what hodl invoices are compared to regular invoices, and their mechanics. We also share real-world use cases....
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Understanding Trampoline Payments
Introduction When Alice pays Bob through the Lightning Network, her node will find a route to pay Bob based on its current knowledge of the network. This is...
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Understanding Inbound Liquidity in the Lightning Network: Simplified
Inbound liquidity refers to the amount of Bitcoin others on the Lightning Network have committed to channels with your node. These are the funds that others have locked...
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How Lightning Channel Rebalances Work
An easy to understand breakdown of how Lightning Channel rebalances work for the Bitcoin Lightning Network....
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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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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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