TLS54: William Casarin on Lightning as a Communications Layer for Bitcoin, LNLink, Nostr, and Damus
The Kevin Rooke Show
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How Does the Lightning Network Work?
Lightning is a network of nodes that connect to each other and advertise their own uno liquidity preferences. The goal with the big point peterpeer now work, is to get transactions to every single bit coin node,. So if you send out a bitcoin, a transaction, you're trying to gossip it to every single node in the world - which might not be wanted by all your peers. You onlightning, im so in my particular se cases, i just want to talk to my node directly to send a payment toike. I don't think it always had ing cription. But a lightning is just, again, very secure network for doing pert apeer in cryptic communications.
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