Explaining Basis Of Lightning Technology (BOLT) 12
Explaining Lightning Network specification BOLT 12 and how it works with the Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol.Watch This Episode On YouTubeListen To This Episode:BitcoinTVAppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercastSjors is back! In this episode of "The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado," hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed BOLT 12 (Basis of Lightning Technology 12), a newly-proposed Lightning Network specification for “offers,” a type of “meta invoice” designed by c-lightning developer Rusty Russell. Where coins on Bitcoin’s base layer are sent to addresses, the Lightning Network uses invoices.....
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