Lightning Network | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 05/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network


00:01:14 1 History
00:02:47 1.1 2018 DDoS attacks
00:03:42 2 Design
00:05:01 2.1 Commitment transactions
00:10:23 2.2 Limitations
00:11:06 2.3 Routing
00:11:29 3 Implementations



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SUMMARY
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The Lightning Network is a "Layer 2" payment protocol that operates on top of a blockchain-based cryptocurrency (like Bitcoin). It enables fast transactions between participating nodes and has been touted as a solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem. It features a peer-to-peer system for making micropayments of cryptocurrency through a network of bidirectional payment channels without delegating custody of funds. Lightning Network implementation also simplifies atomic swaps.Normal use of the Lightning Network consists of opening a payment channel by committing a funding transaction to the relevant base blockchain (Layer 1), followed by making any number of Lightning transactions that update the tentative distribution of the channel's funds without broadcasting to the blockchain, optionally followed by closing the payment channel by broadcasting the final version of the transaction to distribute the channel's funds.
To perform as intended, Lightning Network requires a transaction malleability fix in the Layer 1 blockchain, such as Segregated Witness (SegWit) in Bitcoin.