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Lightning Channel Coinjoins blog

Lightning Channel Coinjoins

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...

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Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network blog

Spending on Bitcoin has increased with use of Lightning Network

Bitcoin Education

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...

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What’s the difference between a Bitcoin Node and a Lightning Node? blog

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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LNURL – Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience blog

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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What do Open-Channel Transactions Look Like On-Chain? blog

What do Open-Channel Transactions Look Like On-Chain?

Lightning Network FAQ

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...

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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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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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The Low Time Preference Low-Cost Routing Node Guide blog

The Low Time Preference Low-Cost Routing Node Guide

Learn from our Support Engineer Nate, how to create a low time preference node you can spend from which transforms to a routing node that earns sats over...

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Running Business on Bitcoin and Lightning blog

Running Business on Bitcoin and Lightning

Thanks to Stakwork for helping us transcribe our Twitter Spaces. Voltage – 00:00:06: To kick this off, maybe share just a little bit about your background since you’ve...

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Send and receive Bitcoin over the Lightning Network with NodeJS blog

Send and receive Bitcoin over the Lightning Network with NodeJS

News

In this article, you will write a NodeJS script to interact with a Lightning node to send and receive Bitcoin programmatically....

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How to Sell Liquidity and Earn Sats with your Lightning Node blog

How to Sell Liquidity and Earn Sats with your Lightning Node

News

Earn sats with your lightning node, prep your node, learn which marketplaces are available, and best practices...

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Nate’s Top 5 Lightning Network Resources for Beginners blog

Nate’s Top 5 Lightning Network Resources for Beginners

Bitcoin Education

A great jumping-off point for learning more about the lightning network....

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