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Be[In]Crypto Video News Show: The Lightning Network – BeInCrypto
In this episode of BeCrypto’s Video News Show, host Juliette Lima explains Bitcoin’s popular Layer-2 payment solution, the Lightning Network. While Bitcoin usage has increased dramatically, this has come with a subsequent uptick in transaction times and fees. At a lackluster seven transactions per second, Bitcoin’s network is effectively inefficient...