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Updated glossary definition of Bech32
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Changed grammar.
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Meshugah authored Nov 5, 2019
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Nodes should aim to have balanced channels with similar inbound and outbound capicities.

bech32::
A Base-32 + checksum bitcoin address format that is native to segregated witness. Also known as "bc1" address by starting letters. Specified in BIP-0173.
A checksummed base32 address format. It is native to segregated (BIP173). Also reffered to as "bc1" because of the starting values of each address. Transactions made using bech32 are smaller in most cases, and therefore, may only require a lower fee.

bip::
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. A set of proposals that members of the bitcoin community have submitted to improve bitcoin. For example, BIP-21 is a proposal to improve the bitcoin uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme.
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