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How is difficulty calculated?

How does the Lightning network work in simple terms?

What are Channel Factories and how do they work?

What is a stealth address?

Why are Bitcoin addresses hashes of public keys?

How does proof-of-stake “mining” work?

How are paths found in Lightning Network?

Why doesn't Bitcoin migrate to proof-of-stake?

What happens if your transaction is never confirmed?

Why does each block store a Merkle root?

What is the maximum size of a transaction?

What are the trade-offs between transacting on Lightning Network and Bitcoin mainchain?

What are the obstacles to pegging the value of bitcoin to an established stable currency?

How is a node in the middle prohibited from keeping the money in a routed Payment in Lightning network?

Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus - Why 33% threshold

Is there a fixed order for all transactions in the block chain?

How do “trustless third-party watchers” work in Lightning Network?

What does a segregated witness transaction look like?

Bitcoin Script tutorial

Is it possible to add funds to an already-open lightning network channel?

How are Lightning network, duplex channels, and micropayment channels related?

Non-bidirection payment channels for lightning network

Opening Lightning network channel: who is paying?

How are sigops calculated?

Why did my lightning node not route payments after I have funded 5 payment channels?

How is the lightning network secured against hacking and double spends?

Is it possible to splice a new participant into a LN channel factory?

I keep hearing about MAST, what is it and what does it do?

what is the motivation behind one-cpu-one-vote rule?

PoW 51% attack vs. BFT 1/3 attack?