Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liqu...

Lightning Labs has launched Lightning Pool, a marketplace for Lightning Network channel liquidity and, perhaps, the advent of LiFi. The post Lightning Labs Releases Channel Liquidity Marketplace appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

The Lightning Network is the reason Bitcoin will be legal tender in El Salvador. The main chain couldn’t serve a whole country without a fast and reliable payment channel built on top of it. It’s as simple as that. However, is the Lightning Network invulnerable to attacks? Is its architecture as bulletproof as Bitcoin’s main […]

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has been growing at a slow pace. What’s keeping it behind, given its high transaction throughput? Bitcoin (BTC) changed the world as a decentralized, nongovernmental form of currency that can facilitate peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions that transcend national borders. But despite this functionality, Bitcoin’s role as a payment mechanism has been called into question due to its low transaction throughput.The Bitcoin blockchain can handle up to seven transactions per second, which means that network demand has seen the average transaction fee on the network reach....

Channel jamming has emerged as a potential attack vector for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. But does it pose a real threat?

The Lightning Network is a design improvement for Bitcoin that could allow users to make micropayments in a decentralized manner and help the entire network scale more efficiently over time. While this proposal has received a large amount of attention in the Bitcoin community, there is another, similar option currently in development by C. J. Plooy. Plooy recently gave a presentation on his alternative implementation, Amiko Pay, at Scaling Bitcoin Montreal. During his talk, Plooy noted:"If you look at the basic design of the Lightning Network -- a network of payment channels. This is....