Lightning Network Gets New Update to Its Litd Node Management Tool

• Litd works behind the scenes to ease some node management functions.
• Multiple users can now share a single Lightning node thanks to the new account system.

Bitcoin technology firm Lightning Labs, a key contributor to Bitcoin’s lightning-fast and scalable Lightning Network, has updated the user-friendliness of its node management tool, Litd.

It may be difficult for users who aren’t tech-savvy or who don’t want to spend hours studying each aspect of the protocol to transmit a payment on the Lightning network since they need to operate a Lightning “node” to send and receive payments on the network non-custodially.

Easier and User-Friendly Improvisation

To facilitate the management of Lightning nodes, Lightning Labs maintains a tool known as Lightning Terminal. To make Lightning more user-friendly, Litd works behind the scenes to abstract some node management functions so users don’t have to handle them directly.

One of the changes made to Litd is the “magical” updating of Lightning fees. Payments are sent over a network of “lightning nodes,” which incur minimal fees to do so.

The costs on a Lightning network must typically be adjusted manually by the person in charge of the network’s node. Lightning Labs, however, developed a novel mechanism for dynamically revising these fees weekly depending on the volume of transactions processed via each channel.

One more is the implementation of something called “accounts.” Typically, there is just one Lightning node per user. Multiple users can now share a single Lightning node thanks to the new account system.

In order to receive funds, new users must first make sure a Lightning channel is accessible to them, which takes some familiarity with how Lightning works and is a significant “Liquidity” user experience barrier. Inexperienced users would rather not cope with all this.

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