Hannah Rosenberg of Lightning Labs and Velas Commerce comes on the podcast to talk some of the finer intricacies of the user-facing part of the Lightning Network, Bitcoin's second-layer scaling solution and the frontrunner for enabling its use case for payments. We go into the different invoice and address types, why they exist, what the differences are between them, and what barriers exist to standardizing them across the whole network. We also go into some extra applications of Lightning beyond simply routing payments and delving into the Web3 world of usernames, identities, and data.

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