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Lightning Network Whitepaper
Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja publish the Lightning Network paper.
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The Lightning Network whitepaper proposed instant, low-fee Bitcoin payments via payment channels — solving Bitcoin's scaling challenge without compromising decentralization.
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#lightning#scaling#l2
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