2019-11-10 15:36 |
У сайдчейна биткоина - Lightning Network - имеется и более неожиданный вариант использования, кроме быстрых платежей внутри масштабирующего сеть решения.
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Случайному наблюдателю сеть Lightning кажется протоколом, в сети которого «заблокировано» примерно 2100 BTC ($105 млн). Это не так уж много в сравнении с популярными DeFi-протоколами и даже меньше рыночной капитализации Биткойна.
2022-2-17 17:10 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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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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Litecoin, the sixth-largest cryptocurrency asset by market capitalization, has recently set a new high in mining hashrate – and a new record number of Lightning nodes. The eight-year-old cryptocurrency continues to defy predictions of its demise, with new adaptations like Mimblewimble and the Lightning Network demonstrating its viability against other altcoins.
2019-4-16 22:12 | |
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The lnd lightning client looks set to roll out a new static channel backup scheme in the next release version, with the required code changes now successfully merged on Github and version 0. 6 now in pre-release testing.
2019-4-16 19:11 | |
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Over the course of the past few months, many crypto proponents have hailed the Lightning Network (LN) as being a “one-stop solution” for all of BTC’s existing scalability issues. However, in the same breath, there are also people like EOS Founder, Dan Larimer who believe that this technology carries with it it’s own set of […]
2019-4-8 13:25 | |
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Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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After U.S. retailer Kroger rejected the use of Visa cards in some of its store chains due to excessive fees, Morgan Creek Digital has offered to set them up to use the Lightning Network
2019-3-4 18:44 | |
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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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New improvements to an existing code repository are set to make it easier for developers to build their own features into bitcoin's lightning network.
2019-3-1 20:00 | |
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Decentralized payment processing service BTCPay Server announced a new service available through their platform on February 22, 2019: a way to request payments by simply sharing a URL, thereby streamlining many of the model’s existing hangups.
2019-2-27 23:26 | |
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Have you ever heard of Jamie Dimon? The man is a notorious anti-Bitcoin person, but he’s the CEO of JPMorgan, one of the most important financial companies in the world. Now, Jamie Dimon’s company is set to launch a JPMorgan-branded digital currency.
2019-2-18 22:20 | |
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Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.
2019-2-15 19:18 | |
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A new, decidedly social feature on the Bitcoin Lightning Network is gaining popularity this week after one user set up cryptocurrency’s answer to the Olympic flame. Lightning Torch Reaches 2. 3M Satoshis Dubbed ‘Lightning Torch,’ the initiative involves passing a lightning payment between nodes, with each receiving user adding 10,000 satoshis ($0.
2019-1-30 22:00 | |
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This is the seventh instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4, on Day 5 and on Day 6.
2019-1-29 01:51 | |
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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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CoinSpeaker Bitfury Releases New Set of Tools Aiming to Push the Adoption of Bitcoin Lightning Network Bitfury strives to tackle one of Bitcoin’s eternal issue, limited scalability, with the brand-new toolkit released to boost the user experience of Bitcoin’s lightning network.
2019-1-24 21:54 | |
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Blockchain tech firm Bitfury Group has released a series of new Lightning Network-related tools for merchants, consumers and developers
2019-1-23 19:31 | |
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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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Patreon has been making the case for censorship-resistant money increasingly apparent. The platform allows members to contribute to artists or creators that they support.
2019-1-19 22:15 | |
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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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Bluewallet appears to be setting the bar for the next generation of Bitcoin wallets. Available for both Android and iOS, it is the first to integrate the Lightning Network (LN) for super-quick and “unfairly cheap” transactions.
2019-1-1 22:00 | |
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Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit.
2018-12-13 22:09 | |
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The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.
2018-12-12 23:22 | |
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Since Bitcoin made a rather quiet debut into the financial markets a decade ago, the crypto has become the most popular and most valued cryptocurrency. That’s despite hundreds of other cryptos hitting the market over the years.
2018-10-31 21:36 | |
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Earlier this week an article was published which discussed how Bitcoins valuation could be set to 100k at most. As we know, the upper limit for BTC is currently set at $20k, an all time high that has not yet been matched since the cryptocurrency boom of late 2017.
2018-10-11 23:00 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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South Korean mobile carrier and global electronics giant LG Uplus has joined forces with Far EasTone Telecommunications, SoftBank, and TBCASoft, to develop a cross-carrier blockchain payments solution to enable local mobile phone subscribers from different networks to make quick payments with their phones when they travel abroad, reported The Korea Times on September 16, 2018.
2018-9-19 18:30 | |
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Even though the Lightning Network is set to revolutionize both Bitcoin and Litecoin alike, there is a growing need for solutions to make the technology compatible with these ecosystems. Submarine swaps are being tested to address any and all concerns in this regard.
2018-9-12 20:00 | |
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Spark is a web-based GUI wallet designed for speed, safety and simplicity that utilizes Blockstream’s Lightning implementation c-lightning as its backend. The platform allows for easy spending and receiving of bitcoins over the Lightning Network, which is renowned for its payment speeds.
2018-9-11 22:32 | |
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Development wise, prospects of lightning Network and Casa should boost prices. This comes at a time when Litecoin has been agitating for mass adoption by forming strategic partnerships with payment providers, news of a one-in-all solution that simplify LN node set up and channel transactions further reflect the divergence between fundamentals and price technicals.
2018-9-8 05:00 | |
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The team behind Lightning Ramp, a system that provides customers with faster bitcoin payments, has joined forces with Casa, a “be-your-own-bank” product that provides users with a multi-signature, multi-hardware device and multi-location wallet designed, to offer top-notch security against attacks and theft.
2018-9-6 00:14 | |
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This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
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The last few months have seemingly been particularly fruitful when it comes to development activity surrounding second-layer Bitcoin technologies, with recent news pointing towards great progress for both the Liquid and Lightning networks.
2018-8-14 23:02 | |
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On July 12th, Charlie Lee, the veteran computer scientist, and creator of the popular digital currency Litecoin, tweeted about the Lightning Network [LN] and how it can be made easier for LTC/BTC traders to create a liquid market on the platform.
2018-7-14 05:12 | |
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Lightning Network – An Alternative to the Bancor Exchange? Charlie Lee Thinks So After undergoing an attack which resulted in the loss of $12 million, the Bancor cryptocurrency trading platform is set to resume operations.
2018-7-14 23:34 | |
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Cryptocurrency has been a global phenomenon. However, there is an inherent issue with the concept. The slower functionality and higher transaction charges are the two concerns being addressed with the aid of Lightning Bitcoin which forked on December 18, 2017.
2018-7-8 18:01 | |
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Newton is an infrastructure for the protocol-based economy. Newton infrastructure is based on NewChain fundamental technology and hyper exchange protocol, upper level has complete commerce ecology. Participant can develop DAPP such as mall, logistics and payment in this ecology.
2018-6-28 17:51 | |
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Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
2018-6-20 22:29 | |
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“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.
2018-6-19 22:15 | |
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