2019-6-5 11:00 |
Co-author of the lightning network white paper Tadge Dryja has released new code for a proposed scaling solution he's been working on for a year. origin »
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The author of a new off-chain Bitcoin scaling solution called Statechain has appealed to the community to implement it as an essential network feature. Statechain Development ‘Essential’ In a blog post June 4, Rubsen Somsen, creator of Statechains, argued that off-chain scaling was obligatory for Bitcoin to succeed, and that his tool solved some of the problems associated with alternatives such as the Lightning Network.
2019-6-4 18:00 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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By CCN: Let me start by saying I’m undecided on the issue of blockchain scaling. I think both camps make valid points. The day that Bitcoin Cash launched was the logical resolution of a drawn-out war which would never have ended otherwise.
2019-5-26 00:00 | |
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RIF Labs officially launched their Bitcoin scaling solution at Consensus 2019. The RIF Lumino Network is comparable to the Lightning Network in its scalability potential, but as it’s built on top of the RSK protocol, there are many differences.
2019-5-22 13:00 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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In laymen’s terms, the Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol built on top of the Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero blockchains; these protocols are called “layer two protocols” because they run on top of an existing network.
2019-5-20 19:00 | |
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Over the course of the past few weeks, the debate surrounding LN’s scaling potential has come to the forefront once again. While many have argued that the Lightning Network’s intrinsic framework is flawed and ridden with loopholes, recent data seems to suggest that the network has continued to grow and that its capacity is currently […]
2019-4-24 19:08 | |
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Bitcoin fund Adamant Capital is convinced that the bottom of the bear market is in, and true to its name, the firm has laid out an unwavering case for this position with some persuasive hard data and fundamental analysis.
2019-4-20 22:59 | |
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network may be a remarkable feat of technology, but it lacks one major aspect: privacy. Now a new project has received funding to create a high speed, scalable payments system, with privacy protections through Zcash’s anonymizing technology.
2019-4-19 18:28 | |
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Bitcoin scaling solutions may be getting huge publicity in 2019, but the amount of money the network processes daily could already cause headaches for competitors. Bitcoin Usage Tramples Venmo As Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano noted on social media April 17, Bitcoin’s ‘on-chain’ transaction volumes grew to $7 billion per day earlier this week.
2019-4-18 16:00 | |
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If you follow crypto news, you have certainly heard about the Bitcoin Lightning Network. This off-chain scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC) was launched last year and it has been growing a lot lately.
2019-4-17 00:12 | |
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling protocol has passed a fresh landmark of 8000 nodes as a new solution launches to increase its mainstream usage. Lightning Rides Growth Highs Lightning, which continues to advance its presence as Bitcoin’s foremost scaling solution, hosted 8016 nodes at press time April 16 according to monitoring resource 1ML.
2019-4-16 20:00 | |
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Dan Larimer, the founder of EOS, has pointed out that there are several problems currently plaguing the Lightning Network, the Bitcoin Network’s scaling solution. The post Are these The Lightning Network Flaws Picked out by Dan Larimer? appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-4-6 19:01 | |
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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olusegun Ogundeji. Bitcoin has crossed the $5,000 price range again (after its first reach to that level in 2017) following a sudden breakout on April 2, 2019.
2019-4-4 18:42 | |
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Bitcoin off-chain scaling solution the Lightning Network (LN) has reached a record $5 million in capacity as Bitcoin price rises fuel enthusiasm across the board. Lightning Network Does Big Numbers Data from monitoring resource 1ml.
2019-4-2 18:00 | |
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Over the course of the past few years, many crypto experts had been saying that the Lightning Network [LN] was the scaling solution that the Bitcoin ecosystem had been desperately waiting for. However, as soon this “second-layer payment protocol” started to garner more and more attention globally, a number of security flaws in relation to […]
2019-3-30 21:28 | |
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Over the last two years, the Lightning Network has been touted as the scaling solution for the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network. However, the solution has been heavily criticized for its lack of security, and on March 28, Bitcoin Unlimited’s chief scientist Peter Rizun wrote an interesting evaluation of the Lightning Network’s “dirty little secret.
2019-3-30 03:10 | |
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A new report by BitMEX Research reveals that the most profitable fee bucket for running a Bitcoin Lightning node has earned them an annualized investment return of almost 1 percent on their outbound channel balance.
2019-3-28 11:00 | |
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The Bitcoin Cash supporter Rick Falkvinge said that the Lightning Network (LN) will never be production ready. He has also said that it is a project “dead end for all intents and purposes.” The Lightning Network is the off-chain scaling solution that Bitcoin (BTC) developers are working on to help Bitcoin scale. Bitcoin Cash is […]
2019-3-24 22:53 | |
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A year in, statistics indicate that the Lightning Network scaling solution is doing well. However, some pockets of the cryptocurrency community don't agree.
2019-3-23 15:00 | |
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The scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC), the Lightning Network (LN), is reaching new records. After a year that developers launched the beta mainnet, the capacity has reached new highs. The Bitcoin LN has now a capacity of more than 1,000 BTC.
2019-3-16 19:38 | |
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Bitcoin Lightning Network has surpassed 1,000 BTC network capacity on its one year anniversary. The event highlights’ the layer-two scaling solution’s progression in the short span of only a year.
2019-3-16 16:00 | |
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The founder of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Roger Ver, has been criticizing the Lightning Network a lot lately. In fact, he’s doing it since forever by affirming that the layer two scaling solution is far from being as good as it claims to be.
2019-3-16 01:46 | |
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One of the most notable scaling solutions to come to Bitcoin has been the Lightning Network. The solution originally came as a second-layer protocol payment system that was meant to cover Bitcoin complications in fees and transaction speed.
2019-3-11 19:47 | |
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Lightning Bitcoin Is Centralized Like Visa: Critic Since the Lightning Network has come to life, the scaling solution has been lauded as a way to fix many of Bitcoin’s current problems in terms of transaction.
2019-3-9 08:30 | |
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The Lightning Network is lauded by its proponents to be the ultimate fix to any scaling problem Bitcoin will encounter. It is an added layer to the Bitcoin protocol. The added layer is intended to create a faster channel to make payments.
2019-3-7 09:40 | |
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It is pertinent for all cryptocurrencies to keep growing and evolving at all times. For Bitcoin and Litecoin, the Lightning Network is considered to be the “holy grail” of scaling and instant payments right now.
2019-3-6 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) developers continue to surprise enthusiasts with new inventions and innovations. We have heard about the Lightning Network (LN), the Lightning Torch and how Bitcoin is getting prepared for massive scaling.
2019-3-5 09:19 | |
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network is always trying to offer the best scaling solution for the crypto investors who use Bitcoin and several companies create their own programs to support it. Now, Blockstream is making a large update to its c-lightning program, which is set to be released in around eight months from now. This new […]
2019-3-2 01:16 | |
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, has endorsed the new extension based on the Lightning Network (LN) that allows users to send and receive tips on Twitter using the second-layer scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC).
2019-2-21 02:28 | |
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Jack Dorsey has endorsed the recent launch of a Twitter in-browser tipping extension built using the Lightning Network. The second layer scaling solution launched last year allows for near-instant, feeless payments in Bitcoin and by using the new Tippin extension, users can show their support for posters’ content financially.
2019-2-21 00:00 | |
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The CEO at social media giant Twitter has praised a Lightning Network-enabled tipping solution which allows users to send tips to Twitter accounts through a simple click. Tipping on Twitter Through the LN A very simple has made tipping on Twitter possible throughout Bitcoin’s layer two scaling solution – the Lighting Network.
2019-2-21 22:30 | |
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Today’s Video Briefing covers the Lightning Network, the second-layer payments solution to Bitcoin’s scaling problems. Although the main blockchain is only capable of a handful of transactions, the Lightning Network allows theoretically limitless scaling for sub-penny fees.
2019-2-19 18:31 | |
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A new Chrome and Firefox browser extension is has enabled Bitcoin (BTC) tipping on Twitter via the Lightning Network. Tippin. me uses Bitcoin’s second-layer scaling solution, the Lightning Network, to make tipping almost instantaneous and with incredibly low fees of fractions of a cent.
2019-2-19 16:00 | |
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One of the main reasons why most of the crypto community is having OMG on their radars is because of their work on researching and implementing Plasma. Plasma is a blockchain scaling solution thought up by Lightning Network co-creator Joseph Poon and co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin.
2019-2-15 18:00 | |
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Beam (BEAM), a recently introduced privacy coin with features such as confidential addresses and opt-auditability announced on Tuesday that it will launch its Mimblewimble Lightning network, which intends to work as a second-layer scaling solution for faster and less expensive transactions for users.
2019-2-13 19:28 | |
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The Lightning Network (LN) seems to be having a good moment in social networks. The founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey has been giving several positive comments related to the LN and Bitcoin (BTC). During the last year, the development of this second layer scaling solution for Bitcoin has experienced impressive growth. Now there are more […]
2019-2-12 02:22 | |
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The CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, has said that the company’s Cash App will integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and that it’s only a matter of time for it to happen. “When” Not “If” Square’s mobile payment service – the Cash App, available for both Android and iOS, will eventually integrate Bitcoin’s scaling solution […] Twitter CEO: It’s not an “If”, It’s a “When” – Square’s Cash App Integrating Lightning Network originally published on My Bitcoin News by Gines Bravo.
2019-2-11 18:30 | |
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The CEO of Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey, has said that the company’s Cash App will integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and that it’s only a matter of time for it to happen. “When” Not “If” Square’s mobile payment service – the Cash App, available for both Android and iOS, will eventually integrate Bitcoin’s scaling solution […] Twitter CEO Says Square’s Cash App Integrating Lightning Network is a Matter of Time originally published on My Bitcoin News by Gines Bravo.
2019-2-11 18:30 | |
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The first major Bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2013, was held in San Jose, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, it was centered on Bitcoin specifically and the more pragmatic issues that Bitcoin was trying to solve, particularly in the areas of Bitcoin technology, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin business and regulatory issues.
2019-1-31 00:30 | |
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The scaling solution proposed for Bitcoin (BTC), the Lightning Network (LN), continues to grow and expand amid a bear market in the virtual currency world. Satoshi Labs, the company behind the hardware wallet Trezor, registered 1 BTC in Lightning transactions in just a single day.
2019-1-29 08:34 | |
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A new point-of-sale (PoS) app released by Zap allows merchants to independently accept transactions on the Lightning Network. Jack Mallers, the founder of Zap, described some of the properties of this new app on a recent Twitter thread.
2019-1-26 01:39 | |
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A blockchain researcher has been working on a scaling effort for the unspent transaction output set found in the Bitcoin protocol. According to Tadge Dryja’s recently published description of research, the software engineer is working on a dynamic accumulator called Utreexo.
2019-1-20 03:01 | |
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The popularity of the Bitcoin Lightning Network has increased significantly. In fact, the platform is currently valued at $2 million (575 BTC). The demand for Bitcoin peaked during the famous bull run of 2017.
2019-1-16 17:28 | |
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Bitrefill is now offering a new way to mitigate Bitcoin’s expensive learning curve for users. During a conversation with CoinDesk, Bitrefill’s Thor service allows people to give lightning channels without the recipient having to set up anything.
2019-1-10 20:59 | |
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The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.
2019-1-5 06:05 | |
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Roger Ver offered $1. 25 million to OpenNode, a lightning network software company, to build on top of Bitcoin Cash. OpenNode declined, stating “our vision of a better, more open financial system is only possible with Bitcoin.
2018-12-31 04:32 | |
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Cash App is ending its Bitcoin transfer by user tags feature months after federal investigations into Block’s compliance practices, sparking concerns about the app’s ability to handle risks. Cash App, a popular mobile app known for peer-to-peer payments, investing, and…
Bitso, a leading crypto exchange in Latin America, has rolled out Lightning Network support for 100% of its users. On Nov. 12, the Lightspark team posted on X that the South American crypto exchange Bitso has now added support for…
As the market continues to mature, Bitcoin’s integration into the DeFi ecosystem will accelerate at a pace that will leave its competitors scrambling to catch up.
The company revealed that its also running Bitcoin and Lightning network nodes.
US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is finally integrating Bitcoin Lightning network after several promises by the exchange CEO Brian Armstrong. In an April 3 statement, Lightspark, a lightning network-based payment infrastructure provider, revealed that it was selected by the crypto exchange to facilitate the integration of Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Quick Take During the 2013 Cyprus financial crisis, Bitcoin’s reaction provided an early indication of its potential as a “risk-off” asset and alternative safe haven. The instability in Cyprus’s banking system was attributed to lax regulation within the sector and overextension among property developers, as reported by The Guardian.
The fifth part in an article series by Ivan Makedonski from Breez on how Lightning's instant settlement finality can be a disruptive force fundamentally changing how different industries are organized.