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13 Apr 2019

By Charles Stack

Lightning Network History Infographic

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Here's a great infographic that shows the early history of the Lightning Network. Posted by jonneton on Reddit.

18 Nov 2018

By Charles Stack

History of Lightning Network video

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A technical history of bitcoin developments leading up to the development of the Lightning Network from Christian Decker, Blockstream, c-lightning engineer. YouTube Video 50:48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauP9F16mUM History of the Lightning Network, Christian Decker, November 18, 2018

25 Jun 2018

By Charles Stack

Blockstream releases c-lightning Server

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Blockstream releases version 0.6 of the c-lightning server. https://blockstream.com/2018/06/25/en-c-lightning-06/

15 Mar 2018

By Charles Stack

Lighting Labs Releases Lightning Mainnet Server

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Lighting Labs Releases Lightning mainnet Server lnd 0.4-beta. While focused on developers this is the first release that runs on mainnet that uses real bitcoin. https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/03/15/lnd-beta.html

21 Mar 2017

By Charles Stack

ACINQ Releases Eclair Lightning Server

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ACINQ released version 0.2-alpha of the Eclair Lightning Network server. https://medium.com/@ACINQ/eclair-0-2-alpha1-is-out-3caaff242567

28 Feb 2015

By Charles Stack

Lightning Network Whitepaper

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The original Lightning Network 2015 Whitepaper. "Creating a network of micropayment channels enables bitcoin scalability, micropayments down to the satoshi [1/100m Bitcoin], and near-instant transactions."

31 Oct 2008

By Charles Stack

Bitcoin Whitepaper

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The original 2009 nine-page whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto that launched Bitcoin. The most important line in the entire white paper is: "The network is robust in its unstructured simplicity. "