Lightning Labs Releases Channel Liquidity Marketplace
Today, Lightning Network development firm Lightning Labs has released a peer-to-peer, non-custodial marketplace called Lightning Pool, where Lightning node operators can buy and sell access to channel liquidity. The marketplace is a way for node operators in need of inbound liquidity to pay node operators with that liquidity to open channels in their direction. “Users can buy or sell Lightning channels, the equivalent of tubes of money, via the Pool marketplace,” as described in a Lightning Labs announcement shared with Bitcoin Magazine. “Merchants and startups who want to receive funds on....
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