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WebLN Guide
  • Introduction
    • 👋Welcome
    • ℹī¸What is WebLN
    • 🏅Benefits of WebLN
  • Building Lightning Apps
    • 👨‍đŸ’ģ👨đŸ’ģ Getting Started
    • đŸ’ģWebLN Reference
      • 🆕webln.isEnabled()
      • webln.enable()
      • webln.getInfo()
      • webln.keysend()
      • webln.makeInvoice()
      • webln.sendPayment()
      • 🆕webln.sendPaymentAsync()
      • webln.signMessage()
      • webln.verifyMessage()
      • 🆕webln.request()
      • 🆕webln.lnurl()
      • 🆕webln.on()
      • 🆕webln.off()
      • 🆕webln.getBalance()
      • Error handling
    • 🛠ī¸Libraries and Tools
    • 🔆Best Practices
  • Ressources
    • ⚡WebLN Providers
    • 🚀Showcases
    • 👩‍đŸĢTutorials
    • 🌐Additional Resources
  • Contribute
    • 🏗ī¸Working Group & Guidelines
    • 📖Glossary
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Glossary

Last updated 2 years ago

Lightning network: The Lightning Network extends Bitcoin with payment channels to increase transaction speed and lower costs. It is becoming widely adopted and accepted as the preferred way to scale Bitcoin.

Payment: A payment is a transaction that occurs over the Lightning network. Payments are routed through Lightning payment channels and are not recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain.

Transaction: A transaction is a transfer of value over the Bitcoin network. While transactions can be complicated, one of the simplest forms of a transaction would be sending bitcoin from one address to another. A transaction is not considered final until it has been included in a valid block by a miner.

Web3.js: is a collection of libraries that allow you to interact with a local or remote ethereum node using HTTP, IPC or WebSocket.

WebLN provider: Providers are classes that implement the interface provided in

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web3.js
WebLN Reference