Why is the Lightning Network necessary?

We want to start by talking about the features of Bitcoin, which is a worldwide digital currency that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to send, receive, and store money without the involvement of third parties like banks or governments.

As a currency, Bitcoin has a number of significant issues:

1. Bitcoin payments could take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours.
2. A Bitcoin network can only process seven transactions per second, compared to 65,000 transactions per second for the Visa payment system.
3. When the network is overloaded, using Bitcoin to make payments can become costly. Each transaction has a cost (the miner fee), which is determined by the network load. Sending a single transaction will be very costly if the network load is high.
4. Due to the extremely high processing fees, sending micropayments is not profitable. For instance, the average commission at the time this document was created was 54 cents, so if you want to send 50 cents, you will need to pay 74 cents in commission to speed up the transaction.
5. The Lightning Network technology, an out-of-network second-level solution that operates in parallel with the Bitcoin network, provides solutions for all of these issues. You can read this article if technical details are of interest to you.
6. You must create a payment channel—an add-on that communicates with the Bitcoin blockchain—in order to send Bitcoin to the Lightning Network. Sending bitcoin via the Lightning Network fixes the majority of the issues with the main system and makes using Bitcoin convenient because your transaction is recorded at the second level (off-chain) rather than on the main network (on-chain).

The primary advantages are as follows:

1. Instantaneous transactions are completed.
2. Commissions are open and honest.
3. Even the smallest payment, like one cent, can be sent.

Bitcoin payments are instantaneous because of Lightning Network technology. Anyone, any business, or any charitable organization can create a Bitcoin wallet that supports Lightning Network and send and receive payments from anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds!

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