lightning-rfc
BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications) [Moved to: https://github.com/lightning/bolts] (by lightning)
lnbook
Mastering the Lightning Network (LN) (by lnbook)
| lightning-rfc | lnbook | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 | |
| 1,500 | 2,780 | |
| - | 0.6% | |
| 7.3 | 1.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | 4 months ago | |
| Markdown | Shell | |
| - | Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lightning-rfc
Posts with mentions or reviews of lightning-rfc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.
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I can’t understand the LN
The full details of LN are described in the lightning-rfc repo, which is a continuous WIP. Other discussions happen mainly on the lightning-dev mailing list.
lnbook
Posts with mentions or reviews of lnbook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Phoenix wallet 1% fee for channel creation?
p.s.: if you're unfamiliar with these terms, I suggest you read the How the Lightning Network works chapter of Mastering The Lightning Network by Andreas Antonopoulos. It's not too technical and if you have a basic understanding of Bitcoin, you won't have any trouble reading it.
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Best books on the lightning network
Mastering the lightning network
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We don't need custodians to scale the Lightning Network
You can read all about it here if you are interested: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/12_path_finding.asciidoc
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Hello everyone. I want to into deep in bitcoin. Can anyone help me with papers or YouTube channel( truly Channels) because YouTube has a lot trash.
I don't know about videos, but if you want to go technically deep, good start is Mastering Bitcoin (https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook) followed by Mastering the Lightning Network (https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook)
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⚡ Lightning Thursday! May 04, 2023: Explore the Lightning Network!⚡
Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook
- JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank
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How long can a node go down for?
No problem. If you want to deep dive into LN, there a free and open-source book here, the first few chapters explain a lot about this without being too technical, and the following one really go deeper: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/
- Bitcoin Magazine Twitter Space now has BTCoiners acknowledging they cannot onboard non-custodially due to limited blockspace, proposed solution is to hope for yet-to-be-born coders... Step by step big blockers vindicated.
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⚡ Lightning Thursday! March 23, 2023: Explore the Lightning Network!⚡
I recommend you to read Mastering the Lightning Network, especially this chapter, which explains the basics of how the LN works.
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Starting a Bitcoin node.
Check out the Mastering the Lightning Network book
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lightning-rfc and lnbook you can also consider the following projects:
lnd - Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
Eclair - A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.
umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.
bolts - BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications)
lnbook - Mastering the Lightning Network (LN)
lightning-rfc - BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications) [Moved to: https://github.com/lightning/bolts]
wiki.plebnet.org
eclair-mobile - An Android wallet for the Lightning Network
Bitcoin.org - Bitcoin.org Website
lightning-onion - Onion Routed Micropayments for the Lightning Network
lightning-tools - Tools for Lightning Network node operators