In this chapter we will dive into payment channels and see how they are constructed. We will start with Alice's node opening a channel to Bob's node, building on the examples presented in the beginning of this book.
In this chapter we will dive into payment channels and see how they are constructed. We will start with Alice's node opening a channel to Bob's node, building on the examples presented in the beginning of this book.
The messages exchanged by Alice and Bob's nodes are defined in https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/02-peer-protocol.md["BOLT2-Peer Protocol."] The transactions created by Alice and Bob's nodes are defined in https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/03-transactions.md["BOLT3-Transactions."] In this chapter we are focusing on the "Channel open and close" and "Channel state machine" parts of the Lightning protocol architecture, highlighted by a double outline in the center (Peer 2 peer layer) of <<LN_protocol_channel_highlight>>.
The messages exchanged by Alice and Bob's nodes are defined in https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/02-peer-protocol.md["BOLT2-Peer Protocol."] The transactions created by Alice and Bob's nodes are defined in https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/03-transactions.md["BOLT3-Transactions."] In this chapter we are focusing on the "Channel open and close" and "Channel state machine" parts of the Lightning protocol architecture, highlighted by a double outline in the center (peer 2 peer layer) of <<LN_protocol_channel_highlight>>.
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