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4 Real Use Cases for Lightning Network blog

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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Solving $1 trillion dollar unpaid invoice problem blog

Solving $1 trillion dollar unpaid invoice problem

The lightning network is great for buying a coffee or a pizza from a merchant who accepts payments. Businesses can immediately save 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction....

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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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Why Exchanges Need Bitcoin Lightning Network Deposits and Withdrawals blog

Why Exchanges Need Bitcoin Lightning Network Deposits and Withdrawals

While user experience on exchanges has been focused on having tight spreads and features that allow entering and exiting positions, I am willing to bet that users are...

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What is Lightning Network Capacity blog

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? blog

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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FOSS Friday #12 – Voltage update blog

FOSS Friday #12 – Voltage update

FOSS Friday

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

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How to start a Bitcoin-Focused Business blog

How to start a Bitcoin-Focused Business

Bitcoin Education

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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TABConf 2022 Recap by Nate blog

TABConf 2022 Recap by Nate

News

The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference (also known as TABconf) is a technical focused conference centered around the builders of Bitcoin....

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Bitcoin for Gun Shops blog

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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FOSS Friday 11 at Voltage blog

FOSS Friday 11 at Voltage

FOSS Friday

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

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