The Lightning network is no longer a distinct possibility. Ordinary people are using it in El Salvador, almost 2 million of them every minute of every day. The growth in less than 30 days has been extraordinary and while there have been many issues with the ATMs and connection problems, Read more…
First of all, why would you want to run a watchtower? Well, there’s a chance of people exploiting an offline node. Say your node goes offline. One of your connected nodes might maliciously try to force close the channel on you but send out an older status on the network, Read more…
Here is a list of resources that I found helpful when setting up and managing my Lightning Network node. Finding good nodes to connect to can be hard. Lightning Node Match uses some basic network analysis to tell you which other nodes will improve the connectivity of yours when connected Read more…
Lightning Takes Bitcoin from Digital Gold to Universal Money. As amazing as El Salvador’s new Bitcoin Law has been, I’d argue the most under-reported story of the past year isn’t El Salvador, it’s the exponential rise of the Lightning Network. Beyond Lightning making El Salvador’s law possible in the first place, and Read more…
It caught on fire. As in, it worked. Clickbaity title aside, this is a wonderful service from the Lightningnetwork+. It all started when a Greek node operator contacted me on twitter to open up a channel. He asked some stuff, I explained that it’s best to do a ring of Read more…
Every time some new technology comes around and disrupts everything, we look back and say, “Dammit, I wish I could see it and have invested in it earlier, or developed a service, a product, something.” Well, this time it’s the Bitcoin Lightning network. It is the killer new app. It’s Read more…
Openoms, a serious educator in the bitcoin space has suggested the following service. I haven’t tried it but you can trust this guy when he’s excited about something. So, in order: Automated: Lightning network plus where you can join a ring, a triangle, a square, a pentagram, pretty much automates Read more…
Well, this is a guide we could have used a few months ago! Anyway, econoalchemist has written yet another guide on how to make a self-custodial lightning node with Raspiblitz, same as we have. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1408585171440340992.html You can read the full guide on econoalchemist’s blog. https://www.econoalchemist.com/post/build-a-self-custodial-lightning-node-with-raspiblitz Find Raspiblitz on the Fulmo Read more…
We wouldn’t have LN today if it wasn’t for @walletofsatoshi‘s awesome LAAS (Lightning As A Service). If you are a bitcoin business and you don’t have Lightning, then you’re doing it wrong. Contact WOS today. Your users will thank you tomorrow. https://walletofsatoshi.com/business
It can be daunting to choose a node to go with. I guarantee you that if you really want to learn about bitcoin, running a node is the best way how. You can tinker with it, sync the blockchain, validate your own transactions, even run your own lightning node. The Read more…