Lightning Labs opens Lightning Pool

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The Lightning Pool is intended to enable Lightning Nodes to lend and borrow liquidity. For some, this could solve a persistent problem with Lightning — and for others, it could provide an opportunity to earn interest in Bitcoins.

Lightning is a great idea and would be great in practice if it weren’t for the odd practical problem. One of them is liquidity: if you want to receive money, you need incoming…