Payment Points Part 1: Replacing HTLCs
Payment Points Series: Payment Points Part 2: “Stuckless” Payments Payment Points Part 3: Escrow Contracts Payment Points Part 4: Selling Signatures In Lightning v1.0, routed payments are enabled by Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs). These are contracts for conditional payment that …
Zero Amount Invoices
Zero amount invoices have been around since the inception of invoices on the lightning network and are widely used for tips, among other things. At Suredbits, we use them as part of our refund mechanism. It turns out, however, that …
Bezos and Crypto Revisited
Since originally publishing our “Bezos and Crypto” series in the fall of 2018, Bitcoin market cap has increased approximately 70% to $183,289,192,185. The number of Lightning nodes (that we know of) with channels increased 170% for a total of 4,498 …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: User Experience – Liquidity
Crypto exchanges can improve customer experience on their platform’s via Lightning technology by providing greater liquidity while offering enhanced privacy protections. In this post, we will focus on the matter of liquidity; its importance to traders and how both exchanges …
Lightning 101 For Exchanges: Security Part 3 – Private Key Management
This is the sixth post in our “Lightning 101 for Exchanges” blog series. In this post we explore private key management and some of the considerations and nuances required for security. Lightning For Exchanges Series Overview Regulation Part 1 — Money Transmitter …
How to: Suredbits API JS client library
In December, Suredbits released the worlds first streaming API for cryptocurrency exchange market data over the Lightning Network. It allows developers and traders to query for realtime market data on both spot and futures based products. This is in addition to …
API Websocket Playground
Our new websocket playground application is live. The playground will help developers explore, test and familiarize themselves with our API services. All our current datasets – Crypto Exchange, NFL and NBA – are available along with their respective channels. Developers …
Lightning 101: Challenges & Limitations
This is the ninth and final installment of our Lightning 101 series. To see previous installments click any of the links below: What is the Lightning Network What is a Lightning Node What is a Lightning Invoice What are Lightning …
Lightning API: Moving to Mainnet
Today we are moving our Lightning application for data feeds to the Bitcoin mainnet blockchain. This marks a significant step in the growth of Lightning for data feeds and we are excited to share this with our customers and the crypto technology …