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What Is Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

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What Is Bitcoin's Lightning Network?

The first cryptocurrency Bitcoin entered into the world in 2009 and its a decade completed. Bitcoin raised its market to nearly 9300$ per BTC. Though the market raises we know that bitcoin has to improve in the scale of the transactions that occurred in a block. 

 

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What Is Lightning Network?

The term lightning network refers to speed. Earlier days telegram is a solution to communicate in long-distance. People will write a short message and spend a lot and the post receives in a delay. The Bitcoin network is of the same type. Lightning network is introduced like dialing a speed dial in your phone. 

 

How It Works?

In Bitcoin, blocks can hold so many transactions and a new block will be created every 10minutes. So far now the transaction rate is lower so transactions are done without any problem. Lightning Network introduces by adding an extra layer to transactions, it will create a  payment channel between two parties to increase the transaction speed. If both parties complete the transactions through a smart contract, they can publish a channel to the blockchain and both balances will be updated on the main chain.

Advantages

The advantage of creating this network channel is to scalable the transactions much simpler. More than hundreds of transactions can be made inside the private channel. Smaller transactions are also done easily by saving the block on original chain.

If the lightning network gains more users the original chain transactions will be done effectively. There are no transaction fees either for big amount or a small amount.

Lightning Network provides security between the two parties and transactions can be seen in both wallets and in the main chain. The channels are created between two and anonymous to other users they can’t view the transactions.



Disadvantages

 

The lightning network is started without a fully operational condition, so it’s better to wait and use the platform correctly.

 

The network issue is also facing while sending the amount to the other party. 

 

Channel creation is difficult in web transactions and for seamless transactions.

 

Bitcoins’s Lightning network is good in paper but in reality, the fully-fledged platform to establish will take some time. The transactions with the higher and lower amount are testing without any hassle. It should prove itself as a second layer of Bitcoin.

 

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