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shmatt on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money

the fact you are using the lightning network means there is some thing writing down a transaction from wallet a to wallet b

smart contracts are a middle man, and not a great one from all the recent exploits executed on them

noch on July 13, 2022 | [–]

> the fact you are using the lightning network means there is some thing writing down a transaction from wallet a to wallet b

Correction: Lightning is a peer-to-peer payment network https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pay...

simonmales on July 13, 2022 | [–]

If I were to send you satoshis via lightning. It wouldn't be recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain.

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