Mastering the Lightning Network
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Mastering the Lightning Network: A Second Layer Blockchain Protocol for Instant Bitcoin Payments
Launched in early 2018, the Lightning Network is rapidly growing in users and capacity. This second-layer payment protocol works on top of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to provide near-instantaneous transactions between two parties. Mastering the Lightning Network is a practical guide that explains how this advancement will enable the next level of scale for Bitcoin, increasing speed and privacy while reducing fees. Ideal for developers, systems architects, investors, and entrepreneurs looking to gain a better understanding of LN, this book demonstrates why experts consider LN a critical solution to Bitcoin's scalability problem.
In several parts, this book examines:
- The challenges of scaling blockchain technology and why the Lightning Network was invented
- LN basics including wallets, nodes, and lightning payments
- Lightning payment channels and how they work
- Routing payments by constructing paths of payment channels from sender to recipient, including onion routing, and atomic multi-path payments
- Lightning developments such as eltoo, Schnorr signatures, HODL invoices, JIT routing, channel splicing, and channel factories
- Building applications on Lightning (Lapps)