{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"HTLCs: How Lightning Moves Money Through Strangers","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8a01b78c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2093,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/htlcs-how-lightning-moves-money-through-strangers.\nHow Hash Time-Locked Contracts let strangers route Lightning payments trustlessly across a chain of nodes, using hashes and timeouts to guarantee no one loses f\nCheck more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #lightning-network, #Bitcoin, #hashed-timelock-contracts, #htlc, #bitcoin-script, #lightning-routing, #multi-hop-payments, #hackernoon-top-story,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @tobses. Learn more about this writer by checking @tobses's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nHTLCs are the trick that lets Lightning move money across nodes that don't trust each other. A payment is locked to a secret's hash, and each hop can only claim its funds by revealing that secret - which in turn lets the previous hop claim theirs. A time-lock guarantees that if the payment stalls, everyone gets refunded instead of losing money. It's how a payment hops through strangers safely, with no one able to steal in the middle.\n        \n        ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eO2Jn0gxT_H9qDuuD0uleszE2n40sbZ-1T2r0zOcj9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY4LzE2ODMz/MTU4ODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}