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How Lightning Makes Bitcoin Great Again (for Payments)

Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future.

Updated Sep 13, 2021, 9:00 a.m. Published Mar 24, 2019, 11:05 a.m.
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