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This is the second part of a two-part series covering some real-life use cases of the Lightning Network.

"The Lightning Network" enables a global payment system that works instantaneously and for little or no cost. With this new technology and infrastructure, we finally have a working method of dealing with micropayments, which are payments of a fraction of a cent that can be sent anywhere around the globe using just the internet and a mobile device. And for the first time, we can even stream money in real time to pay for services as we use them.

In this second part, Don focuses on both trivial and world-changing examples of the Lightning Network in action.

"The Lightning Network" is a solution to enable a global payment system that works instantaneously and for little or no cost. With this new technology and infrastructure, we finally have a working method of dealing with micropayments, which are payments of a fraction of a cent that can be sent anywhere around the globe using just the internet and a mobile device. For the first time, we can even stream money in real-time to pay for services as we use them. In the first of this two-part series, Don takes you through the background of this new technology and gives you two examples of the Lightning Network in action.