How do I invest in the Lightning Network?

Go to CoinMarketCap and search for Lightning Bitcoin. Tap on the button labeled “Market” near the price chart. In this view, you will see a complete list of places you can purchase Lightning Bitcoin as well as the currencies you can use to obtain it.

The Lightning Network is designed to make bitcoin transactions as fast and cheap as possible . It’s part of a newer class of crypto technologies known as “layer 2” blockchains — which you can think of as being a little like HOV lanes on highways.

In short, Lightning Network allows you to exchange BTC in a secure manner despite there being no authority to oversee the process .

A lightning network channel is a transaction mechanism between two parties. Using channels, the parties can make or receive payments from each other . These transactions are processed differently compared to standard transactions occurring on bitcoin’s blockchain.

The capacity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network has short-circuited over the last three months to a 3,400-BTC capacity after surging throughout 2021, according to Arcane Research.

“At the time of writing, the base fee per transaction is 1 satoshi (0.00000001 btc), equivalent to 0.04 cents ,” CoinShares said. On the standard blockchain, nodes must approve transactions. But nodes don’t do this on the lightning network.

The easiest way to invest in the Lightning Network (LN) for short is to buy and hold Bitcoin . The more people support Bitcoin the greater the demand will be that this network is needed. If only 100 people used Bitcoin there would be NO need for a network to speed up transactions.