
Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
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On the Bitcoin base chain, you're paying for a byte that you're sending independent of the value. On Lightning, the payment is based on the amount. The interesting observation is I just mentioned there are well-known algorithms to solve those main costful problems. But it turns out that the computational time that you need very much depends on the structure of the function or thefunction in question.
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