2022-5-11 15:20 |
A class of 2021 Bitcoiner in Mozambique is using the Lightning Network to transact while using Bitcoin to protect his savings.
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Block’s mobile payment service also announced a feature to round up payments to buy bitcoin with the difference, and the ability to send bitcoin using the Lightning Network.
2022-4-7 17:15 | |
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Using their Lightning Network-supporting wallets, participants were able to receive their own beer, poured just seconds after completing the transaction by scanning a QR code.
2022-3-17 14:20 | |
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Spiral, a company created by Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, has given a tutorial on the Bitcoin Lightning and the Lightning Development Kit (LDK) capabilities. In a video published on December 7, the company stated that the LDK tool would be used by developers to plug their applications seamlessly into the network using […] The post Jack Dorsey’s Spiral releases demo on Bitcoin Lightning Development Kit appeared first on Invezz.
2021-12-9 15:11 | |
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The founder of Lightning company LNPay.co discusses how his API service helps businesses integrate Lightning
2021-10-26 20:18 | |
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El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption continues to gain traction, as evident from the number of people using the government’s Bitcoin wallet called Chivo. Over the weekend, president Nayib Bukele claimed on Twitter that 2.
2021-9-28 16:05 | |
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Why didn’t we thought of measuring Chivo and Bitcoin adoption this way? Cero anecdotal evidence. Only facts, numbers, and reports from wherever we can get them. What do we know about the Chivo wallet’s Lightning node? What apps besides the government wallet are the Salvadorans using? Are they happy with them? Investor and blogger Kevin Rooke has a fresh take on El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption and we’re here to summarize it.
2021-9-25 03:26 | |
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Twitter announced on Thursday it will use Strike’s Lightning infrastructure to enable tipping using the Bitcoin network. The post Strike’s Jack Mallers explains why the Bitcoin (BTC) Twitter deal is bigger than you think appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-9-24 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin tips are available to send through the Lightning Network using the Strike app, or by adding a BTC address directly to one’s profile.
2021-9-24 21:01 | |
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As we reported, Twitter has been working on a Bitcoin tipping feature that will make use of the scaling solution Lightning Network through LN using payment app Strike. Kayvon Beykpour, product lead at Twitter & co-founder of Periscope, acknowledged this move, tweeting a high voltage sign referring to Lighting Network and a “soon” sign.
2021-9-4 19:31 | |
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Reports indicate that the micro-blogging platform, Twitter, is beta testing a feature that will allow tipping, using Bitcoin. According to leaked tweets, the feature will be facilitated through Jack Maller’s wallet service, Strike, which is powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
2021-9-2 20:56 | |
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As the Twitter and Square co-founder shared that he is using “Lightning to enable a currency for the internet” by allowing every account on Twitter to link to a Bitcoin Lightning Wallet, the Ethereum community took it as a direct attack against them.
2021-8-14 18:33 | |
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Blockchain technology company Blockstream Corp has rolled out a Bitcoin Lightning node service called Greenlight, per its blog post. This service enables users to easily set up a node on the Bitcoin Lightning Network while using the company’s cloud infrastructure.
2021-7-23 19:02 | |
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The Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s Layer 2 solution for fast and cheap transactions, has been a rather fascinating project, especially after its significant adoption in El Salvador for payments. PropoThe post What you should know about 'this smart way of using Bitcoin' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-7-17 01:30 | |
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Guests at the Crazy Horse 3 will soon be able to tip their favorite dancers using BTC.
2021-7-17 07:13 | |
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NFL running back Saquon Barkley will convert all of his marketing income into bitcoin using Lightning Network platform Strike.
2021-7-15 20:27 | |
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How Lightning Network startup Strike went from using USDT in El Salvador to helping the country build financial infrastructure with Bitcoin.
2021-6-22 21:48 | |
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This week’s newsletter covers using Lightning Network splicing, announcements for a layer-crossing workshop and more.
2021-4-28 18:42 | |
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This week’s newsletter covers using Lightning Network offers to address stuck payments, Taproot activation and more.
2021-4-21 18:44 | |
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Moon has launched a new payment option that enables customers to purchase goods and services using virtual VISA cards on select eCommerce stores. This new payment feature is targeted at any VISA-enabled e-commerce site based in the United States.
2021-3-10 19:26 | |
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FastBitcoins, which sells BTC via the Lightning Network, will give users half of the on-chain fees they would have incurred for transactions. The post FastBitcoins Gifting Customers 50 Percent Of On-Chain Transaction Fees For Using Lightning appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2021-2-18 15:00 | |
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Lightning Auctions is a first-of-its-kind online marketplace that instantly and anonymously collateralizes bids using the Lightning Network. The post Scarce City’s Lightning Auctions Debut Fetches 1 Bitcoin For BTC-Themed Art appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-12-12 21:05 | |
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Over the last few days, Bitcoin has been on a meteoric rise hitting new all-time highs for 2020. This latest stride has opened up new doors for those using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. Lightning users are bracing themselves for the bull run that always follows when new users arrive.
2020-11-9 15:00 | |
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In its latest major release, Electrum now supports a number of innovations that could make using Lightning more secure and less bumpy for users.
2020-7-11 19:42 | |
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Некоммерческая организация WikiLeaks добавила поддержку биткоин-платежей с использованием Lightning Network (LN) в свой магазин. The @Wikileaks shop https://t. co/z1VcHcXrGB now accepts orders using Bitcoin Lightning.
2020-7-11 18:16 | |
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Mobile mesh networks, a network of peer-to-peer (or device-to-device) connections between mobile phones or IoT devices can be helped significantly by using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, a recent podcast noted.
2020-6-15 13:15 | |
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BitPay won’t be using Lightning or Liquid any time soon, with actual Bitcoin payments still accounting for 95% of transactions.
2020-5-29 03:59 | |
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In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong? Juggernaut's John Cantrell and HRF's Alex Gladstein help us see what the crisis has revealed.
2020-4-27 17:15 | |
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A new bitcoin privacy technology was born this week, using the Lightning Network and inspired by the politics of the COVID-19 crisis.
2020-4-24 00:47 | |
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The Lightning Network startup now offers fiat-friendly bitcoin payment tools. Cannabis dispensaries in Colorado are an early proving ground.
2020-4-2 16:00 | |
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. Stakenet, a blockchain ecosystem combining the Lightning Network and masternodes into a flexible DApp network, has announced the release of its DEX API. Using the public repo, developers will have all the tools to set up automated systems from trading bots, market makers, arbitrage bots and more.
2020-1-29 00:15 | |
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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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Following an official announcement released by Bitfinex on December 4, 2019, users of the well-known exchange will be able to access the Bitrefill shop directly from the exchange interface and buy gift cards using the Lightning Network.
2019-12-5 02:00 | |
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Криптовалютная биржа Bitfinex заключила партнерство с сервисом пополнения мобильных счетов и подарочных сертификатов Bitrefill. 💥 Two exciting integrations in two days, we can’t stop to bring innovation to our Community! Our users can now shop @Bitrefill’s catalog and pay through Bitfinex using #Bitcoin and a customized #LightningNetwork channel setup.
2019-12-5 15:17 | |
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Moon, a startup with only three people, was able to create a new browser extension that will certainly be very helpful to people. According to the announcement made by the company, the new extension will let people use Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH) using the Lightning Network to make payments on Amazon. The service, […]
2019-10-22 01:49 | |
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ACINQ, a Bitcoin Lightning developer based in France, has recently showcased, via Twitter, its second generation of Lightning Network wallets. According to the announcement, these wallets are set to be much more user-friendly than the previous ones and have a lot of new functions.
2019-10-18 20:31 | |
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Bitcoin Lightning network may note another boost as Zap Wallet developers announced a new service to ease the process of using Lightning. Defined as a standalone component and complementary to Zap wallet, Olympus would allow users to settle payments through fiat in crypto using Lightning payments and in just seconds, announced Jack Maller, the founder […] The post Bitcoin Lightning network adoption may soar with Zap wallet’s new Olympus component appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-6 21:40 | |
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With new features from Zap, people can now buy bitcoin using the Lightning Network and reduce their reliance on centralized crypto exchanges.
2019-9-20 20:00 | |
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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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You may have heard of the Fold app, which is a crypto payments feature launched in February for buying Dominos pizzas using the lightning network. Well now, Fold is now providing cash-back rewards in the form of the king cryptocurrency to consumers who use the mobile app for buying goods and services through Amazon, Uber, […]
2019-7-31 22:26 | |
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Since December, a sophisticated set of satellites has beamed the entire Bitcoin blockchain to Earth to enable use of the network without an internet connection — but cryptocurrency fans are now harnessing its power to viciously troll each other.
2019-7-11 16:32 | |
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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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The small community growing around messages sent via Blockstream's satellites and paid for using the Lightning Network is in early enough stages that it reminds some members of what it used to be like to mine bitcoin on a simple desktop computer.
2019-6-29 00:14 | |
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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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Тут новости криптовалют сегодня от авторов блога «Новости криптовалют». Статья обновляется в течение дня. CoinDesk Бар в Японии объединяется с локальным стартапом, чтобы позволить клиентам платить через экспериментальную платежную сеть.
2019-6-3 08:32 | |
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A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay using the experimental payments network.
2019-6-3 14:30 | |
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Bitrefill Launches First Ever 1 Btc Public Channel The Lightning Network Bitrefill, a platform which enables users to perform mobile top-ups using cryptocurrency, has announced the launch of the first ever public Lightning Network Channel to carry one Bitcoin (1 BTC).
2019-5-31 22:02 | |
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By CCN: Adamant Capital’s Tuur Demeester, an outspoken crypto analyst and proponent of Bitcoin, said on Twitter that using the flagship cryptocurrency’s blockchain will eventually be as expensive – and rare – as chartering an oil tanker.
2019-5-31 22:30 | |
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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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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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Web3 has had its ups and downs over the last few years, but does it have any real-world use cases?
Bitcoin evangelist Jack Dorsey’s Cash App is making it easier for BTC holders to calculate their taxes with the TaxBit integration.
The Fed vice chair told the House Financial Services Committee that a CBDC offers stability, interoperability in increasingly complex economic system.
“I guess we have a concern that [the Reserve Bank of India] may be actually in violation of the Supreme Court ruling,” said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
The Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami set the stage for the announcement followed by a panel with athletes Serena Williams, Odell Beckham Jr. and Aaron Rodgers.
A grassroots Bitcoin Lightning festival in Portland, U.S. demonstrated that the Lightning Network is the perfect companion for payments.