From c12ba731b916e9f025c33c54b89067ae2d698b67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 8go Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:25:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ch03: replaced "LN" with "Lightning Network" exactly one (#267) - Acronym "LN" shows up 3 time in chapter 3 - Twice explained (the definition): these I left in, because further chapters will/might make use of the acronym - The third occurrence I replaced, as it adds just 1 work to the book, increases readability, is inconsistent with rest of this chapter --- 03_how_ln_works.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc b/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc index f53dd3d..74f6888 100644 --- a/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc +++ b/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Besides all the technical primitives, the Lightning Network protocol is a creati === Payment channels -As you have seen in the last chapter, in order to use the Lightning Network, Alice had to use her wallet software to create a payment channel with another LN participant. +As you have seen in the last chapter, in order to use the Lightning Network, Alice had to use her wallet software to create a payment channel with another Lightning Network participant. From a computer science perspective a payment channel is a cryptographic communication protocol between you and your channel partner. It allows both of the channel partners to send funds back and forth as often as they wish. A channel is only limited by two things: