2020-6-15 17:30 |
Richard Myers says the future of ad-hoc mesh networks for SMS messages and bitcoin transactions on your smartphone is here, but it needs the Lightning Network to succeed. origin »
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The Lightning Network was touted as the payment solution to catapult Bitcoin into the realms of mainstream currency. Why hasn’t it happened yet?
2020-3-10 18:50 | |
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Coinspeaker Metaverse to Accelerate Blockchain Adoption with Lightning Networks for MerchantsBy bringing Lightning Network’s speed and costs to payment channels on blockchain protocols, Metaverse will help merchants to accept transactions in digital currencies.
2019-12-17 11:54 | |
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Recently, Blockstream CSO Samson Mow spoke at the Upbit Developer Conference 2019 about Liquid and creating Lightning networks for any asset issued on Liquid. Mow started by hyping the new and advanced technologies that are coming to Bitcoin for the improvement of its scaling issues.
2019-10-2 17:30 | |
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On Friday, crypto analytics site Messari and data analyst Zack Voell shared a controversial chart called “Bitcoin Cash versus Lightning,” which claims to display a comparison of activity for both networks.
2019-9-9 23:30 | |
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Vitalik Buterin, the ethereum co-founder and its most prominent developer, has publicly stated he is becoming a bit pessimistic about scaling through second layer networks like the Lightning Network (LN).
2019-8-23 20:38 | |
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Blockade Games says it has successfully bridged the two networks by sending a bitcoin lightning transaction to trigger an ethereum smart contract.
2019-8-2 11:00 | |
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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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With Tether already issued on the Omni Layer, Ethereum, and Tron networks, the stablecoin's affiliated crypto exchange Bitfinex has now launched USDT on the Blockstream sidechain Liquid, and is preparing for a bitcoin Lightning Network launch sometime this year.
2019-6-4 23:47 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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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.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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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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A new report by the software firm DataLight predicted that Bitcoin could become the world’s top payment system within the next decade if it maintains its current growth rate.
2019-4-5 21:51 | |
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The Lightning Network (LN) seems to be having a good moment in social networks. The founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey has been giving several positive comments related to the LN and Bitcoin (BTC). During the last year, the development of this second layer scaling solution for Bitcoin has experienced impressive growth. Now there are more […]
2019-2-12 02:22 | |
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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.
2019-1-24 15:01 | |
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Bitcoin Lightning Networks Starts 2019 Off Strong Although the crypto market has barely budged since New Year’s Day, save for Sunday’s surge, Bitcoin’s fundamentals have continued to outperform, starting off 2019 with a proverbial bang.
2019-1-8 03:00 | |
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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.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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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.
2018-12-13 21:50 | |
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The pursuit for cryptocurrency adoption seems to focus on three major cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Indeed, this isn’t to disregard the likes of XRP and Stellar, both of which also provide a solid use in mainstream society, however in terms of worldwide societal adoption, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin tend to be the go-to currencies.
2018-10-10 16:30 | |
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SPIToken. network is a platform market exchange that will play a major role in the Internet Value ecosystem. Where cryptocurrency will be traded against each other, gateways to and bridges across multiple value networks supported by different blockchain / cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH ).
2018-9-24 16:33 | |
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Qtum celebrated its first birthday with a bang, doubling down on the ambitions of its 2019 roadmap and releasing its “game-changer” 0. 16 update, designed to scale the network to 50,000 transactions per second through lightning networks.
2018-9-24 07:45 | |
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Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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South Korean mobile carrier and global electronics giant LG Uplus has joined forces with Far EasTone Telecommunications, SoftBank, and TBCASoft, to develop a cross-carrier blockchain payments solution to enable local mobile phone subscribers from different networks to make quick payments with their phones when they travel abroad, reported The Korea Times on September 16, 2018.
2018-9-19 18:30 | |
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The last few months have seemingly been particularly fruitful when it comes to development activity surrounding second-layer Bitcoin technologies, with recent news pointing towards great progress for both the Liquid and Lightning networks.
2018-8-14 23:02 | |
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A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds without depositing assets with a third party.
2018-8-10 18:32 | |
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However, onlookers have found the spike was due to a single node created by the owner of Shitcoin. com. According to LN explorers, the node holds more than 49 percent of the Lightning Network’s total funds.
2018-7-15 03:12 | |
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Visual cognition startup CloudSight has announced that it will now support Bitcoin Lightning payments, accepting microtransactions to gather and share visual knowledge to allow AI to learn from AI. CloudSight utilizes data to train deep learning neural networks to automatically caption images.
2018-6-22 13:31 | |
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Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.
2018-6-20 22:29 | |
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