Lightning Network

The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the bitcoin blockchain.[1] It is intended to enable fast transactions among participating nodes (independently run members of the network) and has been proposed as a solution to the bitcoin scalability problem.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "lightningnetwork/lnd". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
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  3. ^ "MIT and Stanford Professors Are Designing a Cryptocurrency to Top Bitcoin: Unit-e". fortune.com. January 17, 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  4. ^ Popper, Nathaniel (August 15, 2017). "Bitcoin price surges after deal on software updates". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.