#16 Lightning Fast Bitcoin

Understanding Bitcoin's Lightning Network, with Sjors Provoost. How Lightning works, why BTC's base layer needs second layers, & mobile lightning wallets.

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Today I'm talking about Bitcoin's Lightning Network with Sjors Provoost. We attempt to explain how the Lightning network works, why Bitcoin's base layer needs second layers in order to scale and mobile wallets you can use to make Lightning payments today.