Protocol · January 14, 2016
Lightning Network whitepaper published
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Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja publish the Lightning Network paper, proposing a Layer-2 mesh of bidirectional payment channels for instant, low-fee, off-chain Bitcoin payments — the blueprint for Bitcoin scaling beyond the base layer.
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