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LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks. (arXiv:2304.14559v1 [cs.CR])
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Bitcoin is undoubtedly a great alternative to today's existing digital
payment systems. Even though Bitcoin's scalability has been debated for a long
time, we see that it is no longer a concern thanks to its layer-2 solution
Lightning Network (LN). LN has been growing non-stop since its creation and
enabled fast, cheap, anonymous, censorship-resistant Bitcoin transactions.
However, as known, LN nodes need an active Internet connection to operate
securely which may not be always possible. For example, in the aftermath …
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