2018-11-23 11:30 |
The Lightning Network is already powering a real blogging platform with bitcoin micropayments. origin »
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A 1999 article by Nick Szabo is often cited to argue that micropayments don’t work. But with Bitcoin and the Lighting Network, now they do.
2023-3-6 16:00 | |
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When Stefan Thomas left his lucrative job at Ripple as the CTO of the company, he was joined by former Ripple intern Ben Sharifian. Together, they worked on the Interledger protocol and created Coil – a new micropayments solution based on the Interledger Protocol and Ripple’s XRP.
2018-11-19 18:59 | |
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The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.
2018-11-17 01:17 | |
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The creators of the Handcash wallet have released a free software developer kit (SDK) for programmers who want to leverage the Bitcoin Cash network into applications and websites. The SDK called ‘Cashport’ is an open source BCH-based micropayments system for Android operating systems and web typescript that can be integrated into a variety of services.
2018-10-28 20:00 | |
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Navigating the emerging Web3 ecosystem can seem like translating a massive marketing plan. Small startups will decentralize this, others will offer micropayments for that, and they’re all going to “right” the wrongs of the Internet.
2018-10-23 07:00 | |
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The following post about micropayments was written by Dmytro Spilka. He is the CEO at Solvid and founder of Pridicto, a web analytics startup that uses AI and Machine Learning to forecast web traffic, monitor vital metrics, and set visual traffic aims.
2018-10-12 18:00 | |
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The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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One major hurdle to Bitcoin’s mass adoption as a payment system is its usability — or lack thereof — for instant micropayments. A Spanish hardware hacker has addressed these concerns with a proof-of-concept vending machine accepting Bitcoin transactions through Lightning Network.
2018-10-3 06:00 | |
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CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients.
2018-9-7 18:47 | |
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The use of Bitcoin as a means of payments is declining, according to a report by Chainalysis which found that the coin is not suitable for micropayments but is still used by entities to pay vendors, especially freelancers.
2018-8-3 15:52 | |
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Dala has officially announced a new multi-chain strategy that will include Stellar, the technology behind the seventh largest cryptocurrency (lumens) by market cap.
2018-7-20 00:07 | |
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The capacity of the Lightning Network, a micropayment channel that is compatible with Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a layer two scaling solution deployed on top of the Bitcoin protocol, has increased by 68 percent in the past 30 days.
2018-7-10 01:05 | |
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Cent now enables direct messages with ether payments, even without downloading crypto wallet software.
The Coil blogging platform offers tipping via XRP and future plans to work with a variety of assets.