NYT could make more money with lightning – Bitcoin Magazine by James · October 20, 2022 This is an opinion editorial by Ram, a twenty-year-old student, soldier and storyteller. Image credit: samchills on Flickr under a CC BY 2.0 license. To understand why the New York Times could have made so much more money last year, it’s worth appreciating micropayments in the context of the Lightning Network. We usually think of Lightning as a Bitcoin scalability solution, as it makes daily payments in bitcoin viable. Essentially, Lightning is a protocol built on top of the main Bitcoin network, and here transaction costs are significantly lower and payment speeds are much, much faster. In fact, Lightning is significantly more efficient than even Visa and Mastercard.
