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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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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 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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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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