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Lightning Whitepaper Day
January 13, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
Official release of the Lightning Network whitepaper by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja. The whitepaper proposes scalable off-chain instant payments using a decentralized system, whereby transactions are sent over a network of micropayment channels whose transfer of value occurs off-blockchain.