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Intermediate4 lessons

Lightning Network Basics

Bitcoin Payments at Scale

How Lightning enables instant, cheap Bitcoin payments by moving most transactions off-chain.

20 min

2.17 Payment Channels: Lightning's Building Block

Two parties, one on-chain transaction, unlimited off-chain payments.

5 min

2.18 Routing: Paying People You Don't Have a Channel With

How a Lightning payment hops across multiple channels.

5 min

2.19 Invoices, Keysend & Lightning Addresses

How you actually pay and get paid on Lightning.

5 min

2.20 Self-Custodial vs Custodial Lightning Wallets

Phoenix, Breez, Wallet of Satoshi, and what you give up for convenience.

5 min
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