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Why You Should Run a Lightning Node blog

Why You Should Run a Lightning Node

Bitcoin Education

Welcome to part one of setting up a bitcoin lightning node. In this introduction, I will be attempting to answer one of the most common questions by those...

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How do Lightning Network Fees Work? blog

How do Lightning Network Fees Work?

Lightning Network Routing The lightning network achieves high-frequency payments by taking payments off-chain. This means that information about a transaction is not broadcasted to the whole network as...

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What are Negative Fees and how Does it Affect the Lightning Network? blog

What 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...

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Where Does the Yield Come From? preview

Where Does the Yield Come From?

The age old question. Where does the yield come from? Lorenzo breaks that down for us. #LightningNetwork...

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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 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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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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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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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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Lightning Node “Type” Series #1: The Consumer Node or How to Live on Lightning blog

Lightning Node “Type” Series #1: The Consumer Node or How to Live on Lightning

Living on Bitcoin has never been easier. You can pay your bills with bitcoin on Bitrefill, top up your google or apple-pay with paywithmoon, or buy giftcards with...

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LND Node Recovery Options and Planning blog

LND Node Recovery Options and Planning

Learn steps to recover an LND Node if it breaks or you no longer have access. Nate breaks this down....

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