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Are Lightning Nodes Profitable in 2024? blog

Are Lightning Nodes Profitable in 2024?

Lightning Network FAQ

Introduction Many bitcoiners who decide to learn about running a lightning node learn quickly that they can earn routing fees. Their next question is, can these routing fees...

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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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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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Surge now available for Voltage users blog

Surge now available for Voltage users

News

Surge is now available to all Voltage customers....

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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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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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Point Time-Locked Contracts blog

Point Time-Locked Contracts

Hash Time-Locked Contract Issues The Lightning Network, as it is today enables payment routing by using the Hash Time-Locked contract, the HTLC. In simple terms, this contract enables...

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Lightning Node Management – Handling High On-Chain Fees blog

Lightning Node Management – Handling High On-Chain Fees

As Bitcoin adoption increases, demand for block space will also rise, inevitably resulting in higher on-chain fees. In this scenario, users will lean more toward Lightning Network for...

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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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Watchtowers on Lightning Network blog

Watchtowers on Lightning Network

Lightning Network payment channels work by enforcing a “fairness protocol” – a set of rules that incentivize honest collaboration between channel partners. After funding a channel, payments flow...

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What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels? blog

What are the differences between “public” and “private” channels?

A payment channel is a mechanism that enables the establishment a financial relationship between two nodes on the Lightning Network. These nodes are referred to as channel partners...

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Blockware Solutions uses Voltage for Secondary ASIC Market blog

Blockware Solutions uses Voltage for Secondary ASIC Market

Today we are proud to share that our team has helped Blockware Solutions power their Asic secondary marketplace with Lightning infrastructure....

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