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Lightning Labs

Company blog · lightning.engineering/postsprogrammingeconomics

Lightning Labs is the company blog at lightning.engineering, writing about programming and economics. Since 2017, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 106 times, most often “LSAT: Authentication and Payments for the Lightning-Native Web”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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106mentions?
22HN people?
2017–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2022

Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin

Most-linked posts?

  1. LSAT: Authentication and Payments for the Lightning-Native Web
    6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-03-30
  2. Lightning Pool: A marketplace for Lightning channels
    3 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-11-03
  3. Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
  4. /
    2 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2017-11-01
  5. /
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
  6. Hello Taro: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-28
  7. Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, instant payments on top of Bitco…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”
  2. Submitted LSAT: Authentication and Payments for the Lightning-Native Web as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer, Distributed Systems Engineer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, in…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”
  4. Submitted Hello Taro: Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer, Distributed Systems Engineerg | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, i…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”
  6. Submitted Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, instant payments on top of Bitco…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”
  8. Submitted Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer, Distributed Systems Engineer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, in…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”
  10. Submitted Lightning Pool: A marketplace for Lightning channels as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”
  12. Submitted Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”
  14. Submitted AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. There's a layer 2 technology called Lightning Network that lets you transfer Bitcoin almost for free and in seconds, no transaction number limit. The biggest issue is liquidity, it's not easy to move large sums in a single transaction, but that shouldn't matter much for micro-payments. There's even ongoing work on making paid API's work seamlessly by adding some middleware, using the HTTP 402 (payment required) stat…

    Comment linking /posts/2020-03-30-lsat/

    on “This Video Has X Views”
  16. Submitted Building the (Tap)Root of the World's Financial Network with Bitcoin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Lightning Labs | Senior Engineering Manager, Lightning Protocol Engineer, Senior Security Engineer| San Francisco | REMOTE | Full-time https://lightning.engineering/join-us https://github.com/lightninglabs Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that'll bring Bitcoin to the next billion people. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an ope…

    Comment linking /join-us

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”
  18. Submitted Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”
  20. Submitted Sidecar Channels: Onboarding a Billion People to Bitcoin, Lightning Is Needed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability protocol. We push the edge…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”
  22. Submitted Taproot Assets v0.7: The Set-and-Forget Asset Layer for Lightning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Lightning Labs | Frontend Developer, Crypto Protocol Engineer, Dev Ops, Infrastructure | San Francisco | Onsite or Remote | Full-time https://angel.co/lightning/ https://lightning.engineering/ Lightning Labs is hiring! We’re looking to expand our team to build technology that scales Bitcoin and blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network, an open blockchain scalability p…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”
  24. Submitted Taproot Assets on Lightning: The Global Financial Interoperability Layer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. https://lightning.engineering/pool/ more here: https://medium.com/lightningto-me/practical-solutions-to-inb...

    Comment linking /pool/

    on “El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender”
  26. Submitted Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, instant payments on top of Bitco…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”
  28. Submitted Lnd 0.15 beta: To Taproot and Beyond as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer, Distributed Systems Engineer | Remote | Fulltime https://angel.co/lightning https://lightning.engineering/ At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, in…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”
  30. Submitted LSAT: Authentication and Payments for the Lightning-Native Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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