Bitcoin’s privacy guarantees come from its pseudonymous addresses. They contain no information about the person who owns it. It’s just a human-readable representation of the smart contract that...

Learn what nostr is, and how its messaging protocol is transforming how the internet functions....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Surge is now available to all Voltage customers....

Surge: v1.0.0 | Major Update 2023-06-20 This version introduces outgoing payment management on top of the previously released invoice management, and fully opens Surge up to Voltage customers...

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...