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The Ultimate Lightning Network Privacy Explainer
In this piece, we’ll go through how private the lighting network is and what kind of heuristics or attacks can be put to use to de-anonymize users....
Read MoreFebruary 2023 Foss Fridays
Every other Friday Voltage team works on other open source software outside of our product. This is what the team did in the month of FEB....
Read MoreWhat 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....
Read MoreWhat do Open-Channel Transactions Look Like On-Chain?
A lightning channel funding transaction, commonly called an “open-channel transaction”, is a transaction that is used to open a payment channel on the lightning network. It anchors the...
Read MoreIntroducing 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....
Read MoreWhat 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...
Read MoreWhat the Voltage Crew Built On #FOSSFriday 1/27/2023
It has been a few months since we wrote an update on FOSS Fridays at Voltage. Here is a quick update for Jan 2023....
Read MoreWhere Does the Yield Come From?
The age old question. Where does the yield come from? Lorenzo breaks that down for us. #LightningNetwork...
Read MoreHow does an HTLC work?
For the lightning network to thrive, it needs a secure, trustless method to conduct off-chain transactions. It must ensure these transactions are valid, secure, and can be routed...
Read MoreLightning 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. ...
Read More4 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...
Read MoreSolving $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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