I developed a high interest in Bitcoin lately want to accept Bitcoin for my sales and servicing company, am already working with a programmer to develop software or an application that will aid my transactions using the Bitcoin lightning network.
As the saying goes, no man is an island of knowledge, so I shared my story to get suggestions from this noble forum.
Some newbies might not really know what lighting network is so let me briefly explain it for them.
Bitcoin has been around since 2008, with only a few people knowing about it and having access to it. Transactions were normal because only a few people knew about it, so there was no congestion, but as more people learned about it and tried to make transactions with it, the transaction congestion increased. One of the major issues with bitcoin was the ability to only make seven transactions within a second when the system was always congested, causing transactions to be slow and sometimes transaction always fail, Transactions always take time to complete, and gas fees are always high, which is one of the issues.
People were discouraged from transacting with bitcoin in the early stages of the currency.
After discovering their weak spots a few years later, bitcoin attempted to improve their transaction by introducing the LIGHTING NETWORK, which was established in 2015 with the goal of making bitcoin transactions faster and lowering transaction fees.
WHAT DOES LIGHTING NETWORK MEAN?
Lighting Network is a second layer application that is built to run on a bitcoin blockchain and employs a micropayment channel to facilitate transactions. Since the invention of the lighting network, transactions done using it have been simple, inexpensive, and do not take long to confirm, unlike transactions performed on the main bitcoin blockchain. The lighting network is always off-chain, and it was developed to relieve congestion on the bitcoin block chain.
WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE LIGHTING NETWORK?
Lighting network is a method of transferring funds between two persons via channels, allowing them to send and receive payments from one another.
It works like this: two people can build a multsig wallet and deposit money there if they want to pay money to each other frequently and quickly.
These are off-chain transaction records that are safeguarded by a time stamp on the blockchain. After each transaction, both people digitally sign and update their versions, which is commonly done by scanning a QR code.
The primary issues that LIGHTING NETWORK was created to address include:
- One of the issues that it was created to address is the issue of slow transaction times.
- To make bitcoin simple to use and to allow it to be used for daily transactions with low gas fee or transaction fees .
One of the disadvantages of the lighting network is that it may be easily hacked because all transactions are done online, allowing hackers easy access.
- Transactions on the lighting network cannot be completed offline.
-Depositing bitcoin to multiple signature wallet makes the bitcoin difficult to sell since it has to be transferred from bitcoin blockchain first
-If bitcoin price is dumping or pumping to much you will see lots of payments channels close as multiple sig participants sell there bitcoin because of panic or profit this could shrink the size of lighting network or cut-off some bitcon holders.