#lightning node

How to Protect Your Lightning Node With a Watchtower

First of all, why would you want to run a watchtower? Well, there’s a chance of people exploiting an offline node. Say your node goes offline. One of your connected nodes might maliciously try to force close the channel on you but send out an older status on the network, one where there were more satoshis on their side of the channel than there actually are at the time of closing. Since your…

What is the Lightning Network, a video by Jimmy Song

In this excellent video, Jimmy explains the Lightning Network in under five minutes.

What is the Lightning Network?: https://t.co/7WFH15ITaQ via @YouTube

— Jimmy Song (송재준) (@jimmysong) July 13, 2018