What is the Lightning Network?
5 min readDec 8, 2020
Remember the guy who paid 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizzas back in 2010? His name is Laszlo Hanyecz. In 2018, he bought 2 more pizzas with bitcoin. This time using the Lightning Network. He paid 0.00649 bitcoin.
What is the Lightning Network?
It is a 2-way payment network that sits on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and provides almost instant and almost free transfers.
