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Tether (USDT) to Launch on EOS Blockchain Network
Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange revealed that Tether (USDT), a stablecoin backed by USD, will be launching on the EOS blockchain protocol. The CTO also hinted that Tether might launch on the Lightning Network by 2019’s end, according to reports released on May 31, 2019. дальше »
2019-6-2 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts Platform Adds “Third Layer” Scaling Solution
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. дальше »
2019-5-22 13:00 | |
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Op Ed: Lightning Network Consensus Is a Marketplace and That’s Okay!
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. дальше »
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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Scaling Bitcoin: Is the Lightning Network a Viable Solution?
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. дальше »
2019-5-20 19:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s [BTC] Lightning Network is awesome, says Blockstream’s Samson Mow
The latest Bitcoin [BTC] bullish wave saw many analysts in the crypto-sphere crediting the growing Lightning Network [LN] adoption. The payment protocol for the crypto transactions faced much criticism and some fork coin enthusiasts even alleged that the tech was “riddled with inconsistencies”. дальше »
2019-5-18 17:30 | |
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Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin
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. дальше »
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Bitcoin Developer and SegWit Inventor Proposes New ‘Taproot’ SoftFork
Several new softfork proposals were posted by the Bitcoin developer and SegWit inventor Pietr Wuille this week. Dubbed ‘Taproot’ the upgrade has almost no downside and will help facilitate the Bitcoin lightning network that is increasingly being adopted. дальше »
2019-5-9 09:30 | |
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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live
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. дальше »
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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Bitcoin Lightning Network Passes 8K Nodes as Mainstream Products Emerge
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. дальше »
2019-4-16 20:00 | |
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How Do Bitcoin Lightning Network Apps Work? Let’s Explore the BTC LN LApps World
The Lightning Network, a player 2 protocol for Bitcoin has been expanding of late. Nodes, channels and network capacity are all increasing at a quick pace showing that the public is becoming agitated for work to progress faster. дальше »
2019-4-16 18:37 | |
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Who Will Win in the Race for Processing Speed: Command Chain Protocol vs The Lightning Network
There was one issue with Bitcoin when it was first proposed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto: it couldn’t scale. Ten years later and Bitcoin has the same scalability problem. Throughout its existence, it hasn’t managed to go beyond processing more than seven transactions per second; which was enough in the beginning. дальше »
2019-4-10 19:21 | |
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: Users can lose all their money through no fault of their own, says Peter R Rizun
Peter R Rizun, the Chief Scientist of Bitcoin Unlimited, was previously in the headlines following his comments about the Lightning Network, the second-layer protocol proposed to solve Bitcoin’s scalability problem. дальше »
2019-4-8 19:00 | |
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Bitcoin Price Surge Spikes Lightning Network Value Up Over $5 Million Capacity
Bitcoin Lightning Network, the layer 2 protocol designed to solve the scalability problems of Bitcoin, has now reached a record $5 million capacity following the recent surge of the price of bitcoin (BTC) to nearly $5K, according to reports published April 2, 2019. дальше »
2019-4-3 05:02 | |
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Randomized Proof of Work, Privacy, and its Own Lightning Network: Usechain Makes Bold Promises
The alpha version of the Usechain (USE) mainnet is now live, after more than one year in development. Usechain purports to be the first mirror identity blockchain project — but what does that even mean? Randomized Proof of Work According to Huining Cao, it’s all about Randomized Proof of Work (RPow). дальше »
2019-4-1 06:30 | |
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Brand New Study Shows BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) is Suffering From Trust Issues
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 […] дальше »
2019-3-30 21:28 | |
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Experimental Lightning Protocol Ready For Emerging Exchanges While Others Focus On Altcoins
Experimental Lightning Protocol Ready For Emerging Exchanges Smaller, emerging exchanges are banking on The Lightning Network protocol even though it is not considered stable enough for retail use by many larger exchanges. дальше »
2019-3-28 21:10 | |
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Lightning Loop Lets Users Empty Lightning Channels Without Closing Them
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. дальше »
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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Lightning Introduces “Loop” To Keep Its Payment Channels Open
The Lightning Network is well known as an off-chain Bitcoin payment protocol that offers faster and cheaper transactions. Now, it has announced a related service called Loop, which will make it easier for users to receive a continuous flow of funds. дальше »
2019-3-22 19:39 | |
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Lightning Labs Blocks Bitcoin On Twitter
The Lightning Network, an ever-growing crypto payment protocol, celebrated its first anniversary this week by trumpeting its accomplishments on Twitter. On Friday, Lightning Labs wrote, “If we can do all this in one year, just give us a few more. дальше »
2019-3-17 19:54 | |
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One Teen Bitcoin Millionaire Believes Use of Lightning Network Is the Demise of BTC
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. дальше »
2019-3-11 19:47 | |
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Lightning Network Growing as Bitcoin Rallies
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. дальше »
2019-3-7 09:40 | |
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Top 12 Wallets for the Bitcoin Lightning Network
The Lightning Network is allowing Bitcoin to finally fulfill the promise of P2P digital cash that can be transacted instantly for extremely low fees. While developers continue to add new features and make this protocol more robust,... Source дальше »
2019-2-26 03:05 | |
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Cluck the Banks: Bitcoin Lightning Network Powers Remote Chicken Feeder
A new and decidedly niche consumer product for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has launched, allowing anyone to use the payment protocol… to feed chickens. A Different Breed Of Blockchain Supply Chain Currently circulating on social media, Pollofeed. дальше »
2019-2-22 22:00 | |
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Radar releases ‘ION’ to introduce users to Bitcoin Lightning Network
Radar, the team of decentralized exchange protocol Radar Relay, today announced Radar ION, which introduces users to the Lightning Network, helps them select and fund a Lightning wallet with testnet bitcoin, and recommends apps for experiencing Lightning payments firsthand. ION... Source дальше »
2019-2-13 01:43 | |
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21 Lectures Offers Bitcoin Developer Courses by Schnelli, Decker and Chiang
Switzerland is an international bitcoin and blockchain mecca, known for its crypto culture and concentration of crypto businesses. Now, it is the new home to 21 Lectures, a school for bitcoin developers founded by Lucas Betschart. дальше »
2019-2-12 00:24 | |
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Jack Dorsey: Lightning Coming To Square Cash App Is ‘When’, Not ‘If’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has all but confirmed that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network will feature in the payment wallet and app built by his other company, Square. Focus On Speed And Efficiency Speaking on the Stephan Livera podcast February 11, Dorsey, joined Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark in discussing Lightning’s ideals and his personal belief in the protocol. дальше »
2019-2-11 19:00 | |
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New Zap Point-of-Sale App Enables Merchants to Accept Lightning
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. дальше »
2019-1-26 01:39 | |
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Understanding blockchain is way easier if you think of it as an onion
Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. In previous Hard Fork basics articles we’ve mentioned something called “blockchain layers. дальше »
2019-1-24 15:01 | |
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Lightning Network Co-Creator Is Designing a Scaling Solution Called Utreexo
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. дальше »
2019-1-20 03:01 | |
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Educating the Next Wave of Bitcoin Developers
Bitcoin is an open-source protocol that anybody can interact with. It is getting attention and attracting participation in different ways, whether it is through speculation, investing and sending money, all the way to contributing to what’s underneath the hood. дальше »
2019-1-16 01:14 | |
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Bitfury Brings Lightning Network Payments to the First Bitcoin Exchange
Bitfury’s Lightning Peach team has just announced the implementation of Lightning Network payments on cryptocurrency exchange BTCBIT. This is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the two companies. дальше »
2019-1-16 23:00 | |
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Sideshift App Demonstrates a Trade Between Lightning Network BTC and Tether
Back in October news. Bitcoin. com reported on the influx of development tied to Drivechain, a project initiated by software developer Paul Sztorc. At the time we also covered the project’s extension applications coded by the programmer Andreas Brekken. дальше »
2019-1-13 02:00 | |
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Bitrefill Channel-Opening Service Makes Accepting Lightning Payments Easy
Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not. дальше »
2019-1-11 18:02 | |
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Flaw Discovered in Lightning Network’s Cross-Chain Functionality
While the Lightning Network is mostly known as a way to make Bitcoin payments instant and practically free, another often-touted aspect of the layer-two protocol has been its ability to enable a sort of decentralized exchange as a side effect of its original goals. дальше »
2019-1-10 16:22 | |
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Developers Point Out Flaw in Lightning Network’s Cross-Chain Functionality
While the Lightning Network is mostly known as a way to make Bitcoin payments instant and practically free, another often-touted aspect of the layer-two protocol has been its ability to enable a sort of decentralized exchange as a side effect of its original goals. дальше »
2019-1-13 16:22 | |
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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server. дальше »
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Sold! Lightning Network Art Auction Goes to the Lowest Bidder
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. дальше »
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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Pierre Rochard: “Lightning Adoption Will Basically Mirror Bitcoin Adoption”
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. дальше »
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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TenX’s Comit is a game changer: First BTC Lightning to ERC20 atomic awap went smooth
BTC Lightning to ERC20 Atomic Swap TenX showed a live demo where of their Comit protocol where they swapped a non-native asset to an asset on a layer-2 network on both mainnets. In particular, they swapped 10 PAY tokens on Ethereum for 71240 Satoshi on the Lightning Network using COMIT. дальше »
2018-12-13 04:29 | |
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Report: Lightning Network Still Way off Being Ready for Commercial Use
The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer protocol that was long promised as a solution to BTC’s scalability problem. However, the off-chain system is still very far from being able to support actual commence according to a new review by business management technology company Scipio ERP. дальше »
2018-12-13 02:45 | |
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The World’s First ERC-20 and Bitcoin Atomic Swap Has Taken Place
At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin. дальше »
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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The Lightning Network's First ERC-20 to Bitcoin Atomic Swap Has Taken Place
At the December 7, 2018, TenX Summit, a group of developers showcased an industry first: an atomic swap on the Lightning Network between a non-native asset, TenX’s PAY token, and a native asset, bitcoin. дальше »
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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