2020-1-26 18:42 |
Andreas M. Antonopoulos rejoins the crew for a look at advances in Lightning technology making new-user adoption easier at a tangible, but minimal cost. origin »
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network needs to meet severe expectations. Making the technology more accessible to developers is one way of improving overall adoption. So far, the existing applications and use cases for the LN have been rather technical in nature.
2020-1-22 01:00 | |
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Tierion, a blockchain technology company, announced today the release of a suite of tools to help enable Bitcoin-native authentication using LSATS – Lightning Service Authentication Tokens. For several months, Tierion worked with engineers at Lightning Labs to develop Lightning Service Authentication Tokens (LSATs).
2020-1-21 11:23 | |
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Lightning Network is a second layer technology primarily built to execute micropayments almost instantly at low costs in a hassle-free manner. However, a recent research report now puts the protocol iThe post Lightning Network's privacy, scalability lower than expected: BitMEX Research appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-14 13:00 | |
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ACINQ, a blockchain and Bitcoin technology company, today announced the release of Phoenix, a 2nd-generation mobile Lightning wallet for Bitcoin (BTC). The difference from the 1st generation wallet is that Phoenix runs natively on Lightning.
2019-12-13 00:54 | |
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Nayuta, a layer-2 blockchain technology development company and active contributor to the Lightning Network, announced today it has introduced the first lightning wallet to implement “Bitcoin full node and SPV mode” hybrid on Android and released its code on Github.
2019-12-10 19:35 | |
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As Lightning Network gains further prominence, and given its wide-scale adoption and use cases, crypto-proponent Adam Back featured in an interview with The Total Connector to discuss the urgency of the technology, in relation to Bitcoin’s growth.
2019-10-23 09:35 | |
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You may have heard of Fortnite. It is the most famous video game in the world right now, so it is not surprising that people are starting to apply the blockchain technology to it. Satoshis Games has recently announced that it is developing a new game called Lightnite, which is said to be similar to […]
2019-10-22 00:42 | |
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Any new form of technology is prone to bugs and hacks. That situation is no different in the cryptocurrency industry today. The Lightning Network, a layer-two scaling solution for cheaper and faster payments, can be subjected to an attack.
2019-10-22 20:45 | |
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At the lightning network's inaugural conference in Berlin, the future economics of the bitcoin payment technology took center stage.
2019-10-21 16:45 | |
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A few years ago, most of us would probably never have believed that traditional banks would be investing in the blockchain technology. This is, however, what seems to be happening right now. Bpifrance, an important state-owned French investment bank, has recently participated in the investment of ACINQ, a Bitcoin Lightning startup that raised $8 million […]
2019-10-9 00:58 | |
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The Lightning Conference, an event focusing on the Bitcoin micro payments scaling solution, Lightning Network, has just announced a novel way to help showcase the power of the technology. The ever-important fuel of all crypto conferences, hot, steaming coffee, will be available for a single satoshi, paid via the Lightning Network, at the Berlin event.
2019-10-8 23:00 | |
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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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Many Bitcoin enthusiasts have high hopes for the Lightning Network. For a technology which has been accessible for some time now, it seems there isn’t much growth to take note of. In fact, it appears things are slowly growing worse as more time progresses.
2019-8-27 01:30 | |
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The Lightning Network (LN) is a second layer solution on Bitcoin, allowing users to transfer funds across channels without using the blockchain. The idea, started off by Satoshi, uses routed payment channels technology to complete the transactions instantly.
2019-8-26 17:49 | |
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One of the developmental challenges for industrialization and blockchain technology is the issue of transaction speed. Even though some blockchain networks expand purely based on block size increase, the method is not desirable.
2019-7-29 21:09 | |
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One of the many innovative concepts being introduced to Bitcoin and several top altcoins is known as the Lightning Network. Despite still in the experimental stage, it seems this technology has received a lot of attention.
2019-7-29 04:00 | |
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As per an all new blog post published by software developer Valentine Wallace a couple of days back, second-layer payment protocol — The Lightning Network — now has a new node monitoring tool available for use.
2019-7-28 18:33 | |
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Blockstream announced the v0. 7. 1 release of C-lightning. This version is one of the several technological improvements intended to make Bitcoin lightning network transactions cheaper, faster, and safer.
2019-7-18 08:39 | |
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Today, it was announced from crypto exchange, Bitstamp, the launch of its own Lightning Network node. Bitstamp “believes Lightning may be the next big step for bitcoin and wants to do its part to foster adoption of this amazing technology.
2019-7-9 21:14 | |
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The BCH community’s hostility towards Bitcoin core’s scalability and the solution for the same, the much-hyped Lightning Network, is no secret. Many prominent enthusiasts of Bitcoin Cash have criticized the technology previously.
2019-6-5 06:30 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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CryptoNinjas Bitrefill, a bitcoin gift card marketplace, announced today that in collaboration with Bitcoin technology company ACINQ, they have opened the first 1 BTC public channel on the Lightning Network using ACINQ’s Eclair implementation.
2019-5-30 14:58 | |
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The popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network LocalBitcoins has shut down all trading operations for Iranian users. LocalBitcoins’ website offers a variety of pages for users of different nations and, as of May 24, 2019, the Iranian page displays a message that “LocalBitcoins is currently not available in your selected region,” in English only.
2019-5-25 20:14 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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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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Coinspeaker Apple Watch Users Can Now Receive Bitcoin Through New Lightning AppBluewallet launches a new application for Apple Smartwatch using Lightning technology. From now on users can receive Bitcoin payments on their smartwatch.
2019-5-6 13:17 | |
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While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
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Lightning Labs recently announced the alpha release of its Lightning Network on April 23, 2019, which aims to address current issues surrounding channel capacity limits, with regards to some of the early applications of the technology.
2019-5-1 03:00 | |
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Technological advancement has almost never been stagnant, always breaking limits, setting more goals and breaking them also. This need for continued advancement has been continuously discussed for many years and is probably the origin of the concept known as the Internet of Things or IoT.
2019-5-1 22:08 | |
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The Bitcoin layer 2 scalability solution, Lightning Network, despite being in its formative stage has gained massive traction, especially in 2019. Hodlonaut’s LN Torch initiative contributed immensely to this popularity, unifying Bitcoin proponents from across the world, while also prompting skeptics to explore the technology.
2019-4-30 20:00 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] and the rest of the cryptocurrency market has been working towards achieving mainstream adoption amongst the masses. This mantra seems to have worked in small capacities after the adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies by institutions and other popular individuals in the general financial space.
2019-4-25 18:30 | |
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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’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’s second layer off-chain solution for payment channels managed to take significant leaps this year, owing to the massive support from many luminaries in the cryptocurrency space, participating in the LN Torch experiment.
2019-4-15 21:30 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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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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Radar Relay, a decentralized exchange for trading tokens over ethereum, is branching out into bitcoin lightning technology.
2019-4-6 22:00 | |
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CryptoNinjas Bitfury, the full-service blockchain technology company, today rolled out important updates to its Bitcoin Lightning Network enabled Peach Wallet. The engineering team focused on improving the standard usability of the wallet and enabling users to experiment with unique features.
2019-4-2 20:46 | |
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay now supports Lightning payments. The exchange announced the news via a blog post, where it claims to be the "first major exchange" to enable Lightning payments for its users.
2019-3-29 20:13 | |
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Learn how #LNTrustChain united the Lightning Network community to spread their message, with Jack Dorsey of Twitter already co-signing the technology as a result
2019-3-28 21:08 | |
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CryptoNinjas Full-service blockchain technology company, the Bitfury Group has announced the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the merchant payment processing platform offered by HadePay.
2019-3-16 01:46 | |
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In a bit of an obvious troll move, Motherboard used the testnet version of a Lightning Network message embedding service to embed the closing lines of the Communist Manifesto on the testnet Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-3-12 00:22 | |
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StarkWare, a blockchain platform focused on improving scalability and privacy in blockchains through STARK technology, has announced the launch of StarkPay, a crypto payments scalability engine that is designed to address the shortcomings of the Lightning Network, according to a blog post published March 4, 2019.
2019-3-6 05:02 | |
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The Lightning Network ‘torch’ payment has reached Israel after it was sent by an Iranian in a symbolic gesture of peace between the two nations. The historic occasion proves that Bitcoin is truly an apolitical and borderless money technology.
2019-3-4 21:00 | |
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Yesterday, Radar — a Denver-based technology startup looking ahead to the new financial paradigm — released a new “onboarding experience” for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. Called ION, the new project is an interactive guide for learning how the Lightning Network works and for experimenting with the popular second-layer solution to Bitcoin’s scalability issues.
2019-3-3 02:00 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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By now you have probably heard of atomic swaps, a Lightning Network-related technology looking create interoperability between Bitcoin and every other altcoin on the market. Swaps technology is in itself focused on trustlessly exchanging, “swapping” various types of data, in our case cryptocurrency.
2019-2-28 01:07 | |
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In the latest episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos spoke about the second layer payment technology solution, Lightning network. He especially dived into the topic of splining which he deemed as the “most powerful and underappreciated feature.
2019-2-26 18:36 | |
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