Jack Mallers announced yesterday that he’s helping El Salvador adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This is huge news for many reasons, most importantly that it proves bitcoin’s ideology of banking the unbanked, helping people take sovereighnty over their lives and giving equal opportunities to everyone. Jack also said a very Read more…
The decoy wallet is a good way to save yourself some serious hassle, losing funds, cancelling credit cards, reissuing ID and driver’s license etc. Now you can do the same for your Bitcoin lightning wallet. Sadly it’s only for iOS for now, but Blue Wallet has the Plausible deniability feature: Read more…
Since this took some time to figure out, I wanted to write down some tips that might help some people. Zeus lightning wallet is the best wallet for node owners. It’s also getting a sleek overhaul very soon, making it easily the top suggestion to anyone wanting to get in Read more…
Peter at the podcast What Bitcoin Did had a special month dedicated to Lightning. About The Lightning Network The Lightning Network is a second layer technology built on top of the Bitcoin protocol, designed to enable cheap and fast payments. This series is dedicated to learning more about the technology Read more…
This is a very fun guide on how to set up a lightning node with Umbrel (You can use another node, doesn’t have to be Umbrel), and then stream audio through Sphinx Chat. Your fans can support you directly with sats. This is being used by podcasters but I’m sure Read more…
Read the article here https://blog.liquid.net/six-differences-between-liquid-and-lightning/ A Summary: The table below shows a summary of the key differences between Lightning & Liquid. For users wanting to take advantage of the unique properties of both Liquid and Lightning it is possible to build Lightning networks on Liquid, which will allow the sidechain Read more…
BTC Sessions just made a very helpful guide for newbies who want to run their own lightning node. Frankly, Lightning is a bit of a geeky mess, and while it’s fun to do the DIY, some people just don’t have the time or the patience to learn all that. Thankfully Read more…
Vlad Costea posted this guide for the Lightning network, explaining a lot of the things about it, how to start, what the node options are, the works. Seriously, Vlad, I could have used this like 2 months ago. Anyway, better late than never, check out the guide and get educated. Read more…
Lightning is a very complex network for operators. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out the intricacies. You can go with the DIY route of getting a Raspberry Pi with Raspiblitz or you can get Umbrel, which seems to be the best one for newbies. One of the biggest questions everyone Read more…
Lightning is a patch on top of Bitcoin. It’s still the best payment solution out there, no matter what people might claim, but it’s a pain sometimes. Basically, when you set up a fresh node, you need sats coming in as well as coming out. That’s liquidity. The way routing Read more…