Lightning: receive your first sats
“The payment settles before a card machine would finish dialing.”
The Lightning Network is bitcoin's payments layer: money moves through pre-funded channels between participants, with the base chain as the court of final settlement. Payments are near-instant and cost fractions of a cent — the properties everyday commerce needs.
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