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Bitfinex Launches Support to Lightning Network
3.1.2020
Founded in 2012, Bitfinex is a globally acclaimed peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading exchange that caters the requirements of its customers hailing from different parts of the world. The Hong Kong-based crypto trading platform offers an array of unprecedented digital asset trading services through...
[článek] Bitcoin a kryptoměny v roce 2019: sidechainy, Lightning Network i česká stopa
27.12.2019
[9 minut čtení] Zatímco rok 2018 byl zkouškou nervů pro investory, která ukázala nejen zdraví projektů, ale i upřímnosti jejich tvůrců, rok 2019 byl především velkou sklizní toho, co se rok před tím zaselo. I pokud budeme chtít zůstat jen u samotného Bitcoinu, událo se toho za poslední rok jen...
Bakkt launches regulated BTC options
23.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 10 December, 2019 “Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.” - John Milton In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Nayuta claiming its Android Lightning wallet is the first with a […]
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Hanukkah Reflections on My Year of Toying With Bitcoin
22.12.2019
‘Tis the season for introspection. And this year, my thoughts are on bitcoin
‘Multi-Part’ Payments Could Bring Bigger Bitcoin Sums to Lightning Network
21.12.2019
With its latest "major release," bitcoin tech startup Blockstream said its c-lightning software team is the first to release a working version of "multi-part payments."
Blockstream’s ‘Watchtowers’ Will Bring a New Justice System to the Lightning Network
20.12.2019
Watchtowers, a semi-trusted payment channel sheriff, is designed to keep the peace among lightning nodes
Crypto Experts Give Their Top Predictions for 2020
19.12.2019
In an industry built around digital scarcity, opinions are in plentiful supply. Everyone’s got one, and they’d love to share it with the rest of the cryptosphere. As the decade draws to a close and another prepares to launch, it’s the perfect time to consider what 2020 has...
Authoritarian Airdop: Maduro ‘Gifts’ Petros to Venezuelans for Christmas
16.12.2019
Discussing new trials of an LN point-of-sale app; updates in consumer & institutional crypto derivatives, and Venezuelan petros as holiday bonuses
Bitcoin-Savvy Retailers to Experiment With Point-of-Sale Lightning App in 2020
16.12.2019
Iterative Capital is working with Breez on a point-of-sale app for bitcoin lightning payments. Some retailers are already testing the beta version
Here’s What Happens When You Use Lightning Network for the First Time
16.12.2019
Do you remember receiving your first bitcoin? Seeing those satoshis arrive in your wallet is a magical, almost spiritual, experience. In that moment, the most beautiful thing about bitcoin is not its censorship resistance or pseudonymity: it’s that it works at the first time of asking....
Lightning Network Wiki Page Faces Removal for Lack of Notability
13.12.2019
A slew of Wikipedia editors would like to delete the Lightning Network (LN) Wiki page because the subject matter does not hold notability. Wikipedia editors use notability as a test to find out if a topic warrants its own article. The LN article debate on Wikipedia is still raging as a few editors...
Square Crypto Bankrolls Star Lightning Developer Known as ‘ZmnSCPxj’
11.12.2019
Keeping in the cypherpunk spirit, Square Crypto has issued a grant to pseudonymous developer ZmnSCPxj for Lightning and bitcoin research
Bakkt launches regulated BTC options
10.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 10 December, 2019 “Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.” - John Milton In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Nayuta claiming its Android Lightning wallet is the first with a […]
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Nayuta Claims Its Android Lightning Wallet Is the First to Build in a Bitcoin Full Node
10.12.2019
Japan-based startup Nayuta has released what it says is the first lightning network wallet with a built-in bitcoin "full node."
Stellar’s Version of Bitcoin’s Lightning Torch Has Been Burning Quietly Since June
9.12.2019
The Stellar blockchain has been running its own version of bitcoin's Lightning Torch since the summer
Bitfinex Allows Lightning Network Shopping on Bitrefill with Bitcoin
4.12.2019
Users of crypto exchange Bitfinex now can shop with Bitcoin held on the trading platform over Lightning Network
[aktualita] Bitfinex začal podporovat Lightning Network pro vklady a výběry BTC
3.12.2019
Bitfinex, jedna z největších a nejstarších dosud fungujících kryptoměnových burz, spustila vlastní Lightning node a začala na své platformě podporovat Lightning Network pro vklady a výběr bitcoinu z burzy. Mezi velkými hráči v oboru je zatím spíše světlou výjimkou. Lightning Network je ve zkratce...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments Hit Bitfinex in Industry First
3.12.2019
Bitfinex: Lightning Network forms first of two major upgrades
Guy Who ‘Lost’ 4 Bitcoin Has Recovered Most Funds a Month Later
2.12.2019
One month on, a Redditor who “lost” 4 Bitcoin on the Lightning Network says the community offered “huge support,” helping him recover most of his funds
Another Research Paper Finds Flaws With the Lightning Network
26.11.2019
On November 21, researchers from Hungary and Institute for Computer Science and Control published a critical examination of the Lightning Network, the protocol intended to amend BTC’s scalability issues. The researchers’ simulation findings indicate the Lightning Network...