Cryptocurrency

Do you want money YOU can send instantaneously to anyone, anywhere in the world? Here’s how you can do so.

Tim Copeland at Decrypt.co has a great article describing how an amateur like me can build and operate a Bitcoin Lightning node for not much money. I had been running a regular Bitcoin node on one of my home computers but was looking to operating a Lightning node version. I looked at the Casa Node but it was like $300 a year so that was a non-starter. This article came out in late December and I followed instructions to build one in January. I bought the parts on Amazon and carefully followed instructions and got this up and running in no time with hardly any problem at all. Probably the hardest thing is figuring out how to open the correct port on my router. So it sits on my desktop running day and night processing BTC transactions like a boss.

Read Tim’s article here for complete instructions on putting together your Bitcoin Lightning node and helping keep it decentralized.

The Liquid Network

In this course, you will learn what you need to know about getting started with cryptocurrencies. This step-by-step online video course is aimed at the absolute beginner in Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is the future and this course can help you navigate the world of Cryptocurrency so you can get started down the road to financial freedom. To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, you have to first understand how it works at a technical level. After this course, you’ll know everything you need to know to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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In the pursuit of better technology, things get a little messy along the way. While the way Bitcoin addresses are formatted has changed quite a lot, it really isn’t something the average person needs to care about. Bitcoin has used different standards over the years leaving a few standards in use at the same time, making the complex string of character even more intimidating than it needs to be.

Read the entire article at the Trezor Blog