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What is Onion Routing & How does it work? blog

What is Onion Routing & How does it work?

Onion routing is a technology that precedes the invention of the Lightning Network by 25 years. It’s also used in Tor, hence its name: “The Onion Router”....

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The Ultimate Lightning Network Privacy Explainer blog

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....

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What are Blinded Paths and How do they Work? blog

What 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....

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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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Introducing Flow 2.0: A New LSP Focused on Just-In-Time Liquidity blog

Introducing 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....

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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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How does an HTLC work? blog

How does an HTLC work?

One of the requirements for the lightning network to work is the establishment of secure payment channels between users that allows trustless off-chain transactions and the ability to...

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Lightning Privacy for Beginners blog

Lightning 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. ...

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4 Real Use Cases for Lightning Network blog

4 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...

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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 are the differences between LND and CLN? blog

What are the differences between LND and CLN?

The Lightning Network protocol is formalized in specification documents called BOLTs (Basis of Lightning Technologies). All organizations that maintain Lightning Network node implementations must follow the specifications described...

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