Lightning and Payments
9 posts
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Making Everyday Payments with the Lightning Network
A detailed explanation of how the Lightning Network - Bitcoin's Layer 2 solution - scales from 7 transactions per second to millions, covering payment channel and routing mechanics to real-world examples from El Salvador.
- 2Beginner
Ten Minutes From Zero to Your First Lightning Payment
From choosing a wallet to making your first Lightning payment - a step-by-step guide to getting started with Bitcoin's instant payment layer.
- 3Intermediate
Opening Lightning Channels and Managing Liquidity
A channel management guide for anyone running their own Lightning node. Covers the concrete steps and numbers behind opening channels, acquiring inbound capacity, and optimizing routing revenue.
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Bitcoin Is Slow Only If You Ignore the Layers Built on Top
A comprehensive guide to Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions - Lightning Network, Liquid Network, RGB Protocol, Stacks, Ark, and Statechains. Compare trust models, speed, privacy, and programmability across approaches.
- 5Intermediate
Money Whose Issuer Cannot Tell Who Spent It
Chaum's ecash reborn on Lightning. How blind signatures create a custodian that cannot keep a ledger, how Cashu and Fedimint divide up the trust, and where this echoes gold-backed banknotes and where it decisively breaks from them.
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Logging In With Nothing but a Lightning Wallet
What Lightning login is, why you do not need any bitcoin to use it, and how to sign into every txid.uk site in about thirty seconds with Wallet of Satoshi.
- 7
Cutting the 3% Card Fee to Zero for Your Business
A practical guide for merchants and small businesses on accepting Bitcoin payments - the case for and against, BTCPay Server self-hosting vs custodial processors (Strike, OpenNode, IBEX), Lightning vs on-chain trade-offs, accounting treatment, tax implications, and jurisdiction-specific rules for the US, South Korea, and Japan. Not financial or legal advice.
- 8Intermediate
AI Agents Already Use Bitcoin. Humans Just Don't Notice Yet
AI agents cannot get credit cards. Visa bans automated systems and settlements take days. Lightning Network already filled the gap. From the revival of HTTP 402 to the x402 protocol, here is how the payment layer for the AI era is being built.
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A Social Network Nobody Can Lock You Out Of
Nostr applies Bitcoin's censorship-resistance philosophy to social media - a decentralized protocol built on public-key identity, relay architecture, and Lightning integration.