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BOLT 12 – Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience blog

BOLT 12 – Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience

Limitations If you use the Lightning Network regularly, or if you read our article about LNURL, you might be familiar with the user experience limitations that the Lightning...

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Multipart Payments – AMP/MMP blog

Multipart Payments – AMP/MMP

In this article, we’ll go through multipart payments in the Lightning Network, a critical evolution that overcomes single-part payment restrictions and allows more significant amounts by splitting them...

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Penalty Transactions on Lightning blog

Penalty Transactions on Lightning

To scale Bitcoin payments, the Lightning Network was designed such that peers can exchange payments off-chain through a payment channel. In essence, a payment channel is a financial...

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Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes blog

Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes

The Lightning Network uses payment pre-images and payment hashes as essential components of its Hash-Time-Locked Contract (HTLC). The HTLC is a smart contract that enforces a fairness protocol...

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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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Solving $1 trillion dollar unpaid invoice problem blog

Solving $1 trillion dollar unpaid invoice problem

The lightning network is great for buying a coffee or a pizza from a merchant who accepts payments. Businesses can immediately save 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction....

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