Why The Denial-Of-Service Argument Against BOLT 12 Doesn’t Hold Up
A successor proposal to BOLT 11, BOLT 12 is a proposed upgrade to Lightning, the most popular Layer 2 Bitcoin protocol.This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. BOLT 12 is a proposal from Rusty Russel of Blockstream to optimize how payments are made over Lightning and ultimately become the successor to BOLT 11. Even though there are many different features packaged together in order to compose the BOLT, this article is mostly going to focus on the trade-offs and issues regarding one of them. First, I will....
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Explaining Lightning Network specification BOLT 12 and how it works with the Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol.
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BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences?