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Flow 1.0 Phase Out Announcement blog

Flow 1.0 Phase Out Announcement

Feature Updates

We are setting a sunset date for Flow 1.0. Flow 2.0 is already producing and powering lighting applications such as Mutiny Wallet and is available for use....

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Understanding Inbound Liquidity in the Lightning Network: Simplified blog

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 blog

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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Submarine Swaps – How do they work and where they are used? blog

Submarine Swaps – How do they work and where they are used?

Interaction Between Protocols Imagine a scenario where Alice wants to buy a book from Bob’s e-commerce, but Alice only has on-chain funds, and Bob only accepts payments through...

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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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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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Lightning Channel Strategy Guide and FAQ blog

Lightning Channel Strategy Guide and FAQ

This guide/FAQ is designed to give Lightning Network node runners, whether new to the hobby or experienced, a concise breakdown of different channel types and situations....

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Effortless Inbound Channel Opening for Voltage Nodes blog

Effortless Inbound Channel Opening for Voltage Nodes

Feature Updates

Voltage node runners just got a big quality of life boost! With the click of one button, all users running a Voltage node may claim 500,000 sats of...

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Identity and Brand on the Lightning Network blog

Identity and Brand on the Lightning Network

News

This brand display on the Lightning Network is a passive and effective means of showing support of Bitcoin. As the cryptocurrency space continues to grow more muddled and...

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Announcing Surge and our Next Generation platform  blog

Announcing Surge and our Next Generation platform 

Just announced at Bitcoin 2022 in Miami our CEO, Graham Krizek, gave two key updates to our products and platform. We are creating modern products to push the...

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Why Did My Lightning Network Payment Fail? blog

Why Did My Lightning Network Payment Fail?

Curious why your Lightning Payments may be failing? Check this out....

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