News about Lightning

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 11 months ago

Lightning network scaling

I sometimes read concerns about LN scaling, and how it scales "quadratically", meaning it cannot actually scale according to it. From what I've gathered there would be around 100k LN users currently. (not 100% sure) How would LN react,...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 11 months ago

Lightning withdrawal from Kraken

Because of high fees for btc withdrawal from Kraken (about 17$ now) I decided to try Lightning withdrawal. This was my first usage of Lightning and I'm not familiar with it at all. I have successfully sent my btc to Phoenix wallet and next to my...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 11 months ago

Bitcoin Lightning Network payments are maturing

As a cryptocurrency payment processor, we have some insights into LN usage for retail payments in 2023 based on our own data that you might find interesting: The use of BTC Lightning Network on the CoinGate platform displayed maturity, witness...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 11 months ago

Lightning node bot

One of the pivotal aspects in Lightning node management is undeniably monitoring. This is the reason I initiated the development of a bot to automate the retrieval of pertinent information from a node. Additionally, this bot can be utilized to receiv...

by COINS NEWS - 11 months ago

UX improvements in Lightning payments.

I understand that most folks on this sub are investors rather than those looking for ways to spend crypto. But if you are one who has an interest in the latter, are you up to date about recent Lightning UX enhancements? Seeing the concerns around hig...