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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Basis of Lightning Technology: the public protocol specifications |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | The BOLTs are the public specification of Lightning: channels, commitments, and routed payments on top of Bitcoin, not a single company's product. |
| Who may write | Lightning protocol authors |
| What is settled | A channel is a pair of Bitcoin transactions plus an off-chain commitment scheme. The commitment is what makes a payment revocable or enforceable. |
| Load-bearing assumption | This note does not quote capacity or a routing success rate. |
| What this library says afterwards | A reading of the project's public design document. Not a copy, not a benchmark, and not an offer. |
| Rights | Official external source only |