It's kinda hard to answer succinctly, I made the comment after reading about how it works, here: https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook/blob/develop/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc
It's essentially a mixture of cryptography and game theory, that allows you to transact off-chain without fully trusting the people you're transacting with.
Almost like how escrow works, but without actually having to trust an escrow service.
retr0id_testing /
npub1nd…spkq8
2023-07-24 00:07:29
in reply to nevent1q…0w44
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npub1ndakjwx045u0ylws9vryfee862n6g0ntsp4hvutklv0af42zp5pscspkq8Published at
2023-07-24 00:07:29Event JSON
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