2019-10-8 09:22 |
Brad Garlinghouse is certain that Bitcoin is not scalable enough to use it for micropayments
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Bitcoin offers an opportunity to allow people to make micropayments, which could provide solutions for content monetization, online tipping and more.
2022-5-10 03:30 | |
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Bottle Pay facilitates Lightning Network micropayments through social media and chat services and is growing along with the technology it’s built on. The post Bottle Pay Raises $2M to Expand Lightning Network Tips Across the Web appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-24 22:08 | |
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“Big four” accountancy firm Deloitte is allowing staff to buy lunch with Bitcoin as a means of testing its usefulness, Luxembourg Times reports. “We think it’s good to have our employees assess this new technology,” a partner at Deloitte’s advisory arm told reporters.
2019-9-17 15:21 | |
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More than 20k Bitcoin addresses hold $1 and more. While it is good news, high fees mean expending these coins is far from reality. The post 20K Addresses Hold $1 of Bitcoin and More, Use In Micropayments Far From Reality appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-7-11 11:30 | |
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Liquid Network users can now send and receive bitcoin micropayments via the c-lightning implementation of the Lightning Network (LN). “Lightning on Bitcoin on Liquid” According to a tutorial published by Blockstream developer “grubles” via Medium on Tuesday (July 2, 2019), LN users can now create bitcoin Lightning payment channels using c-lightning.
2019-7-3 15:36 | |
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Lightning Labs has taken one step closer to bringing Lightning Network payments to mobile with the launch of the Lightning App for iOS and Android in alpha on the Bitcoin main net. It follows the recent launch of the Lightning App on desktop, bringing the total number of operating systems supported by the program to.
2019-6-20 02:00 | |
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With the introduction of Joule Allowances, the Bitcoin network takes one step closer to achieving its potential for automated micropayments and ‘streaming money. ’ Joule Allowances Enables BTC Auto-Micropayments Since its inception, Bitcoin has been trying to live up to its promise of being an enabler of frequent, low-value, instant payments.
2019-6-19 02:00 | |
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Lightning Network app Tippin. me has released a version 1. 0 update, which includes a host of new features and promotional measures intended to increase the user base and improve the user experience.
2019-5-28 16:28 | |
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Blockonomi recent released an interesting article titled Understanding Micropayments & Their Role in the Web 3. 0. This is a summary. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) has made micropayments quite popular.
2019-5-19 02:01 | |
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Orchid Labs let its audience in on their recent developments in a May 8, 2019 blog post. This included a successful $43 million funding round, its probabilistic micropayments feature, the Orchid app and more, that will contribute to their motto of a natural Internet, May 08, 2019.
2019-5-9 23:00 | |
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Blockstream's Liquid Network has expanded to include 14 new members. With these additions, Liquid’s client base now boasts 35 institutions. The company also announced that Liquid is now available on Bitfinex and RenrenBit, a crypto finance app.
2019-5-8 18:47 | |
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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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At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.
2019-4-2 22:02 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, we feature a couple of announcements by leading crypto exchanges. Binance starts selling cryptocurrency for cash at newsagent stores in Australia, while Huobi is launching its new token listing platform.
2019-3-21 14:48 | |
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The latest Lightning app is supposed to be about bolstering crypto adoption, by highlighting the simplicity of Bitcoin’s second-layer payments network. Instead, it brought attention to the fact that the infrastructure for decentralized micropayments still has a long way to go.
2019-2-22 21:42 | |
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Micropayments on the Bitcoin network were unheard of till the Lightning Network came along and opened endless new capabilities for BTC. One such capability is tipping on the popular social media platform of Twitter.
2019-2-20 21:49 | |
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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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The IOTA Foundation announced the winners of the Perfect Brainstorm contest on Wednesday. The contest received over 210 ideas submitted by the IOTA community, including tamperproof 3D printing and enhancing traffic efficiency with micropayments.
2019-1-3 19:29 | |
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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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An artist by the name of “crypto graffiti” has sold the smallest artwork in history in a “micro auction” to promote the c-Lightning micropayments system, the artist announced in a Reddit post on December 20, 2018.
2018-12-26 08:00 | |
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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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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 Lightning Network is already powering a real blogging platform with bitcoin micropayments.
2018-11-23 11:30 | |
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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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