31 Jan 2020
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Podcasts

Podcasts

Education, Podcasts
What Bitcoin Did, Peter McCormack. The number one bitcoin podcast in the world, and for good reason. Host Peter McCormick travels the world for face-to-face interviews with leading bitcoin luminaries. He has the best guests and an extremely listenable style with uniformly excellent content. Highly, highly recommended.  Now twice weekly. Here are our recommended episodes focused on the lightning network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIZct096HI
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31 Jan 2020
By lightningnet
Lightning Network Videos

Lightning Network Videos

Education, Videos,
While we have previously covered some video content from online courses, conferences, and websites generally this section features a short curated selection of educational videos intended to quickly explain the lightning network. Watch them all over lunch and you will be a lightning network corporate champion by afternoon. Lightning Network Explained, 12:24, April 2019. Very clear explanations and lovely hand-drawn graphics. Uses our favorite bar tab analogy as the underlying metaphor. Includes an explanation of the concept of streaming money. Highly recommended.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UIOeoBEjmw Bitcoin's Lightning Network, Simply Explained! 5:33, Dec 2017. Basic clear simple explanation. Note: current implementations generally abstract…
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31 Jan 2020
By lightningnet

Bitcoin Lightning Network Online Courses

Online Courses, ,
There are not yet many online courses strictly focused on the lightning network. But here are a few Bitcoin courses that we recommend that provide an excellent background for understanding lightning. Payment Channels and Lightning Network, MIT, 2018, Lectures 13 and 14, Tadge Dryja (leading expert). Great graduate-level lectures. Part of a very good bitcoin course entitled Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design. Very technical (It is a graduate-level MIT course), but interesting and relevant. Really shows the deep complexity lurking behind the Lightning Network. Blockchain and Bitcoin Fundamentals, Udemy, $11.00. 3 hours of video instruction and a nice pdf glossary. Introduction…
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