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Title: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on November 09, 2020, 03:09:45 AM
I am thankful to your contributions in this thread.


Lightning Network



Table of contents
  • Lightning Network Home page (#post_home)
  • Lightning Wiki (#post_wiki)
  • Lightning Network Developer (#post_LNDev)
  • BitMEX 's reports (6 parts) (#post_mex)
    • Motivation, basic technical things (#post_mex1)
    • Routing Fee Economics (#post_mex2)
    • Where Is The Justice? (#post_mex3)
    • All Adopt The Watchtower (#post_mex4)
    • BitMEX Research Launches Penalty Transaction Alert System (#post_mex5)
    • Over 60,000 Non-Cooperative Channel Closures (#post_mex6)
  • BitcoinVisuals.com (#post_visual) Click on links, hover mouse on charts to see details
    • Download link (#post_visual1)
    • Nodes (#post_visual2)
    • Channels (#post_visual3)
    • Network Capacity (#post_visual4)
    • NEtwork Capacity per channel (#post_visual5)
    • Distance Measures (#post_visual6)
    • Completeness Measures (#post_visua7)
    • Clustering Measures (#post_visual8)
    • Connectivity Measures (#post_visual9)
    • Channels per Node (#post_visual10)
    • Capacity per Node (#post_visual11)
  • Total value locked in USD or BTC (#post_lockedvalue)
  • State of LN network (main net) (#post_txstat)
  • Central Point Dominance (https://lnmetrics.opdup.com/)
  • History of the open network, biggest nodes, biggest crashes (https://ln.bigsun.xyz/)
  • Real time Lightning network statistics (https://1ml.com/statistics)
  • Other sources
    • Basics of the Lightning Network (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4940536.0)
    • Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5259973.0)
    • Youtube video on Lightning Network (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrr_zPmEiME)
    • Overview of lightning network nodes owned by forum users (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5266907.0)
    • The Lightning Network FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158920.0)
    • A fortnight of lessons on the lightning network (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217699.0)
    • Understanding The Lightning Network, Part 1: Building A Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791)
    • A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin's Lightning Network (Binance Academy) (https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-lightning-network)
    • Bitcoin Lightning Network FAQ (https://medium.com/@The1Brand7/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70)
  • News site (links to pages for LN)
    • BitcoinLightning.com (https://www.bitcoinlightning.com/)
    • Bitcoinist.com (https://bitcoinist.com/tag/lightning-network/)
    • BitcoinMagazine.com (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/lightning-network)
    • TheBlockCrypto.com (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tag/lightning-network/)
    • Coindesk.com (https://www.coindesk.com/tag/lightning-network)
    • Cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/tags/lightning-network)




Contents

Lightning Network Homepage
Get more details from its Homepage (https://lightning.network/). There are Documents page (http://lightning.network/docs/) on which you can also get documents (paper, summary) for
  • Lightning Network paper (https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf)
  • Lightning network summary (https://lightning.network/lightning-network-summary.pdf)
  • Lightning network technical summary (https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf)

Lightning Wiki
Get more details from its main page (https://lightningwiki.net/index.php/Main_Page)

Lightning Network Developer
Get more details from LND Overview and Developer Guide (https://dev.lightning.community/overview/)

BitMEX's 6 parts
BitMEX's part 1
Read details there The Lightning Network (Motivation, basic technical things) (https://blog.bitmex.com/the-lightning-network/)

BitMEX's part 2
Read details there Routing Fee Economics (https://blog.bitmex.com/the-lightning-network-part-2-routing-fee-economics/)

BitMEX's part 3
Read details there Where Is The Justice? (https://blog.bitmex.com/lightning-network-justice/)

BitMEX's part 4
Read details there All Adopt The Watchtower (https://blog.bitmex.com/lightning-network-part-4-all-adopt-the-watchtower/)

BitMEX's part 5
Read details there BitMEX Research Launches Penalty Transaction Alert System (https://blog.bitmex.com/lightning-network-part-5-bitmex-research-launches-penalty-transaction-alert-system/)

BitMEX's part 6
Read details there Over 60,000 Non-Cooperative Channel Closures (https://blog.bitmex.com/lightning-network-part-6-over-60000-non-cooperative-channel-closures/)

Bitcoin Visual
Daily CSV data file
Download data file (daily) there (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/static/data/data_daily.csv) and play with it.

Nodes
https://i.imgur.com/XmTLZhC.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-nodes

Channels
https://i.imgur.com/IbQXTyS.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-channels

Network Capacity
https://i.imgur.com/Vw75V0l.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity

Network Capacity per channel
https://i.imgur.com/QrlJACo.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity-per-channel

Lightning Network Eccentricity
https://i.imgur.com/q6eyYES.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-eccentricity

Lightning Network Density
https://i.imgur.com/7mcLQor.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-density

Clustering Measures
https://i.imgur.com/ti8CmYa.png
Get it at https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-clustering

Connectivity Measures
https://i.imgur.com/jQdA174.png
Get it at Lightning Network Cut Channels (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-cut-channels)

Channels per node
https://i.imgur.com/ESM7yHj.png
Get it at Lightning Network Channels per Node (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-channels-per-node)

Capacity per node
https://i.imgur.com/XS3qGTp.png
Get it at Lightning Network Capacity per Node (https://bitcoinvisuals.com/ln-capacity-per-node)

Total value locked in USD or BTC
You can get Total values locked (in USD, BTC) from defipulse.com page for lightning network (https://defipulse.com/lightning-network)

Two charts show something happened with total valued locked but I've not yet digged to find what happened in late of 2019.

Sum of channels, number of open channels, LN channels additions/ closures per block
Get the State of LN network (main net) (https://txstats.com/dashboard/db/lightning-network?orgId=1&from=now-5y&to=now): Sum of channels, number of open channels, LN channels additions/ closures per block.



Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on November 09, 2020, 03:12:20 AM
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Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on November 09, 2020, 03:12:29 AM
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Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: mk4 on November 09, 2020, 03:35:33 AM
+1

You might want to add some beginner-friendly Lightning wallets that people could try out:

[1] Phoenix Wallet: https://phoenix.acinq.co/   <--- totally a fan of this. Made a topic about it here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5250677).
[2] Breez Wallet: https://breez.technology/
[3] BlueWallet: https://bluewallet.io/


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: Rath_ on November 10, 2020, 10:19:46 AM
Could you add "The Lightning Network FAQ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5158920.msg51615708#msg51615708)" to "Other sources"? There's plenty of useful information there.


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: Heisenberg_Hunter on November 10, 2020, 06:57:39 PM
Great documented information. You can also try to add [Complete] A fortnight of lessons on the lightning network (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217699.msg53607838#msg53607838) by jackg in Other Sources.

It was a beginner friendly guide and I was able to learn a lot more about the lightning whitepaper in layman terms. Along with mk4's suggestions, try adding a few mobile wallets like Eclair so that this guide can serve as a one stop documentation for all the lightning network related information.


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: Pmalek on November 11, 2020, 12:04:08 PM
You seem to be very much into stats and graphs based on the majority of your threads. I can't say that I am, but I appreciate and understand that it takes a lot of time to design and arrange all this.

Lightning Network Homepage
Get more details from its Hopage (https://lightning.network/).
You might want to edit this Hopage into Homepage.


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: bitmover on November 29, 2020, 11:51:45 AM
bitcoinvisuals is a nice website, thanks for sharing.

Sadly they do not have their own API, the data is available only in CSV.

According to most charts LN keep growing.
Time for me to open a channel again (specially to receive donations in my website). I will get a mobile wallet to do, probably  Phoenix Wallet recommended by mk4.


Two charts show something happened with total valued locked but I've not yet digged to find what happened in late of 2019.

From June to December 2019 the price was in strong downtrend. I believe there is a  considerable number users who just sell their btc during that time. So they get btc out of their lightning channels.

You can see a clear correlation with the price in both chartst (BTC locked and USD locked)


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on December 02, 2020, 05:58:36 AM
bitcoinvisuals is a nice website, thanks for sharing.

Sadly they do not have their own API, the data is available only in CSV.
You are welcome, bitmover. It is not for real-time data analysis but at least with their CSV dumps, you can use such data set and merge with other available datasets that you have, then play with the merged data.

Quote
From June to December 2019 the price was in strong downtrend. I believe there is a  considerable number users who just sell their btc during that time. So they get btc out of their lightning channels.

You can see a clear correlation with the price in both chartst (BTC locked and USD locked)
It seems to be right but that price fall is not as bad as dump in late of 2018. In 2018 (late months), total lightning channels look stable and even increased very quickly after that fall. People probably were more panic in late 2019 or some other things happened.


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on February 07, 2021, 05:39:32 AM
I just discovered Jameson Lopp has a page on his website for Lightning Network (https://www.lopp.net/lightning-information.html) (visit that page to get more sources than given ones here)
  • Understanding The Lightning Network, Part 1: Building A Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791)
  • A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin's Lightning Network (Binance Academy) (https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-lightning-network)
  • Bitcoin Lightning Network FAQ (https://medium.com/@The1Brand7/lightning-faq-67bd2b957d70)
  • Statistics
    • Central Point Dominance (https://lnmetrics.opdup.com/)
    • History of the open network, biggest nodes, biggest crashes (https://ln.bigsun.xyz/)
    • Real time Lightning network statistics (https://1ml.com/statistics)
  • News site (links to pages for LN)
    • BitcoinLightning.com (https://www.bitcoinlightning.com/)
    • Bitcoinist.com (https://bitcoinist.com/tag/lightning-network/)
    • BitcoinMagazine.com (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/lightning-network)
    • TheBlockCrypto.com (https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tag/lightning-network/)
    • Coindesk.com (https://www.coindesk.com/tag/lightning-network)
    • Cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/tags/lightning-network)


Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: tranthidung on March 18, 2021, 12:44:51 PM

How to use Lightning with Fold (https://medium.com/in-the-fold/how-to-use-lightning-with-fold-b75e8c15ac69)
Fold (https://foldapp.com/). You can buy gift cards on Fold with Lightning Network payments. Fold's support (https://support.foldapp.com/hc/en-us).



Title: Re: Lightning Network -- Basics (documents, data pages, files, plots)
Post by: Karartma1 on March 18, 2021, 01:17:27 PM
For the time being Fold App is only available in the United States and I saw in some thread I can't recall there's another company called last bit that offers two different apps to connect LN to credit card payments or wire transfers.

Lastbit - Pay or Get Paid in Bitcoin or Euros (https://lastbit.io/)