5.5 How do Bitcoin Lightning Network payments work? || Chris Stewart & Nadav Kohen episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 11, 2021 · 4 MIN

5.5 How do Bitcoin Lightning Network payments work? || Chris Stewart & Nadav Kohen

from Join the Wasabikas - a Bitcoin Privacy Podcast · host Wasabi Wallet

Nadav Kohen [@Nadav_Kohen] explains how Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions work. If the payment is inside only one payment channel, then there are just regular signatures, and no hashed time locked contracts. But if the payment is routed through the Lightning Network, it uses contingent payments with HTLCs. The routing node only gets paid, if he commits to paying the next node in the route.

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5.5 How do Bitcoin Lightning Network payments work? || Chris Stewart & Nadav Kohen

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Nadav Kohen [@Nadav_Kohen] explains how Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions work. If the payment is inside only one payment channel, then there are just regular signatures, and no hashed time locked contracts. But if the payment is routed through...

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