Proposed in a 2016 white paper, the Lightning Network (LN) is a layer-2 solution built on top of Bitcoin. In this article we will delve into the history of and current state of Bitcoin's Lightning ...

Bitcoin Argentina, an NGO focused on promoting Bitcoin, is offering a virtual training course called “Introduction to Lightning Network.” According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, the ...

The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1130: “The Lightning Network is creating efficiency for traders.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Here’s a great blog post from the team behind ...

The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels originally proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in 2015, with major implementations having been built by Blockstream (CLN), ...

In this photo illustration a Bitcoin sign is seen on a mobile phone in front of Visa, Mastercard and Paypal logos. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) One of ...

The Bitcoin layer 2 protocol, the Lightning Network, is aptly named because, when it works, it works lightning fast. People love the Lightning Network. This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a ...

Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Jack Mallers, the ...

The integration uses The Lightning Address protocol, which allows developers to replace a standard Lightning invoice, or payment request, with an internet identifier such as an email address. The ...

The Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling platform, has a privacy problem. Receiving payments, requesting refunds, and opening and closing payment channels (connections between Lightning nodes) ...

The growth in Bitcoin added to the layer-2 Lightning Network has electrified over the past year, hitting 4,000 Bitcoin less than four months ago. Bear markets are for building out capacity on the ...

Bitcoin’s layer 2 Lightning Network has seen an estimated 1,212% growth in two years, with around 6.6 million routed transactions in August, a significant jump compared with August 2021’s 503,000 ...