Lightning Onboarding; A non technical introduction to lightning

By Olutobi Adeyemi

The Lightning Network (LN) is a network that operates as a second layer on top of Bitcoin. Here users can make payment to each other without the necessity of publishing a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain for each payment.

Before LN transactions can be made, a payment channel is opened, say among Alice and Bob. A payment channel between Alice and Bob has a fixed amount, which was funded by both of them respectively, so transactions can be moved almost instantly from Alice to Bob numerous times.

Read Olutobi's simple and comprehensive guide on understanding lightning transactions here; https://tobi-adeyemi.gitbook.io/bitdev/week-2/lightning-onboarding