⚡ Lightning Thursday! July 15, 2021: Explore the Lightning Network!⚡

• lnbook

  139 2,780 1.0 Shell

  Mastering the Lightning Network (LN)

  

Lnbook getting closer towards being finished and can already be seen at: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook

• lightning-node-management

  39 199 5.9 Shell

  Beginner friendly resources to manage a routing node on the Lightning Network

You can set your node to be monitored by a watchtower. More here. If something happens while your node is down, they will help catch it.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• awesome-lnurl

  27 336 0.0

  A curated list of awesome lnurl things.

  

Aside from just cheap and fast transactions, LN can also be used to: - Authenticate: Login to platforms using your lightning network wallet (List of supported services to try here: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-lnurl) - Enable smart contract functionality: Discrete log contracts can use lightning to create fast and decentralised contracts between two parties. Most of the experimentation here is related to creating bitcoin settled derivative contracts without a central party (see: https://dci.mit.edu/smart-contracts and https://suredbits.com/ )

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