Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s foresight held remarkably well: Adam Back

Prominent crypto-advocate Adam Back was recently interviewed by The Total Connector, an interview during which he discussed developments around Lightning Network and its effects on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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As Bitcoin for Payments Concept Grows, So is the Lightning Network Fee Debate

As the Bitcoin Lightning Network evolves and becomes something bigger than it was before, several developers are discussing its future at the Lightning Conference, which is happening in Berlin right now.

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Представлен аналог Fortnite с нативной поддержкой Lightning-платежей

Стартап Satoshis Games разработает аналог компьютерной игры Fortnite с поддержкой платежей в сети Lightning Network — Lightnite. We are announcing our new game at @LNconf ⚡ Here is the medium article about Lightnite, our #Bitcoin integrated battle royale game 🎮 You’ll also find a trailer in the article: https://t.

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BitMEX to Showcase Power of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network at Upcoming Crypto Conference

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.

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Will Lightning Network (LN) Survive as a Solution to Bitcoin’s Payment Problems?

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.

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What You Need to Know About The Bitcoin Lightning Network

The creation of Bitcoin brought a lot of relief to the financial industry in particular and the global society in general. But there is a big issue that has hindered bitcoin since it was created in 2008, by Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Craig Wright: Bitcoin Users Are Money Launderers & Will Rot in Jail

By CCN: According to self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, everyone who runs a Lightning node, uses privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero, or uses mixing services like CashShuffle will be guilty of money laundering and eventually suffer the brutal legal consequences.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths: The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

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.

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Op Ed: Debunking Bitcoin Myths, The ‘Intrinsic Value’ Fallacy

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.

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Bitcoin Prices May Surge But High Fees a Challenge

Bitcoin up 9. 5 percent High transaction fees will lead to financial exclusion In Jeff Garzik’s deduction, high Bitcoin fees, despite Lightning Network development, will, in the long run, slow down adoption.

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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Upgrades Solve These Baker’s Dozen of the Biggest Problems

At the time when Satoshi Nakamoto first projected bitcoin in 2008, the very first statement on the system was made by James A. Donald, and it states: “the way I understand your proposal, it does not seem to scale to the required size.

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Breaking: Binance Delists Bitcoin SV (BSV)

Binance Delists Bitcoin SV (BSV) Last week, a controversy arose regarding Craig Wright, an Australian cryptographer who purportedly is Satoshi Nakamoto, and Hodlonaut, a Bitcoin diehard that created the Lightning Network Torch initiative.

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Craig Wright Sends Out ‘Law Suit’ Letters to Those Who Claim He’s Not Satoshi

Coinspeaker Craig Wright Sends Out ‘Law Suit’ Letters to Those Who Claim He’s Not SatoshiCrypto blogger Peter McCormack received a lawsuit letter from Craig Wright for causing “serious harm” to his reputation.

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#JeSuisHodlonaut campaign picks up steam after Craig Wright threatens to sue Hodlonaut over tweets

Craig S. Wright, self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, was in the news after threatening to sue the initiator of Lightning Torch Hodlonaut #LNTrustChain for libel, after Hodlonaut posted a series of tweets calling Craig Wright a fraud.

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Vidi, Vici, Satoshi: The Lightning Torch Has Reached Its Final Destination

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Craig Wright Threatens Libel Suit In Letter to Bitcoiner, Demands Apology

Craig S. Wright has officially taken the first steps in a legal action against a member of the Bitcoin community, according to a letter shared with Bitcoin Magazine.

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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.

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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee becomes the Lightning Torchbearer; chain sits at $4200k Satoshi

Litecoin creator and Managing Director of the Litecoin Foundation, Charlie Lee became the latest figure in the cryptosphere to hold the Lightning torch. Litecoin. com announced the development on its official Twitter handle, According to the post by Litecoin.

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Lightning Dev Explains Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Become the Global Currency

When the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto first released Bitcoin to the public, his goal was to remove the power governments and banks had over people’s money, and put the power back into the hands of the user.

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Satoshi’s Games Goes Live. Play Games on the Lightning Network

Satoshi’s. Games is now available on the Lightning Network since Wednesday, February 13, allowing users and players to try several occasional games on this powerful network while earning satoshis upon completion of certain challenges.

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Максимальный выпуск Bitcoin [BTC] может быть увеличен

Первое упоминание об увеличении максимального выпуска цифровой валюты Биткоин было сказано на мероприятии под названием Satoshi Roundtable. Если говорить конкретнее, о повышении заговорил Мэт Луонго, который принимал некоторое участие во внедрении Lightning Network.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Engages in Bitcoin Lightning Network ‘Torch’ Experiment

Jack Dorsey has taken part in a ceremonial usage of Lightning Network “for the laughs. ” The idea mimics the Olympic torch. Participants pass microscopic amounts of Bitcoin around the Lightning Network, using Lightning-enabled wallets to generate and pay invoices.

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Bitcoin 2019: A Peer-to-Peer Conference for the Whole Bitcoin Community

The first major Bitcoin conference, Bitcoin 2013, was held in San Jose, California. Organized by the Bitcoin Foundation, it was centered on Bitcoin specifically and the more pragmatic issues that Bitcoin was trying to solve, particularly in the areas of Bitcoin technology, Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin business and regulatory issues.

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Lightning Network Establishes New Record Processing 1 BTC in Transactions in Just a Day

The scaling solution proposed for Bitcoin (BTC), the Lightning Network (LN), continues to grow and expand amid a bear market in the virtual currency world. Satoshi Labs, the company behind the hardware wallet Trezor, registered 1 BTC in Lightning transactions in just a single day.

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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.

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The Wallet of Satoshi Launches as a New User-Friendly Bitcoin Lightning Network Wallet in Australia

2019 seems to have started on a high note for LRS (Living Room of Satoshi) and TravelbyBit. The two firms entered into a partnership through the Lightning Network to introduce grandma-friendly Bitcoin payments across Australia.

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Grandma-Friendly Bitcoin Lightning Network Wallet Launches in Australia

A partnership to roll out Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network across Australia went live January 4 with the beta launch of Wallet of Satoshi. 1000 Beta Wallets Launch The product of payment gateway Living Room of Satoshi (LRS) and TravelbyBit, billed as “Australia’s first cryptocurrency travel agency,” the wallet aims to bring Lightning payments to entry-level Bitcoin users.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

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Elisia ICO

Elisia is the most exciting development in the blockchain world since Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed Bitcoin in 2008. Elisa provides lightning fast transactions with no fee. Each Elisia transaction will reach its destination in lightning speed without any fee to sender or receiver! Decentralized Applications (DAPPS) can be created with ease and deployed on the Elisia network with a click of a button without any fee for deployment.

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Litecoin (LTC) Continues To See Rising Institutional Interest

Chart for LTC/USD (1W) Gemini just announced Litecoin (LTC) support. A new exchange backed by TD Ameritrade has already made clear its intention to list Litecoin (LTC). Coinbase already has it and so does Circle.

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Roger Ver Says BCH Most Resembles Satoshi’s Bitcoin, Charlie Lee Says Lightning Network Is BTC Whitepaper

Some time ago on the Blockchain Cruise, Charlie Lee and Roger Ver had a very interesting talk about cryptocurrencies, scaling solutions and the cryptocurrency world in general. During the conversation, Charlie Lee defended the developments that are being done on the Lightning Network while Roger Ver defended Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Roger Ver is an important […]

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Lightning Network is Satoshi Nakamoto’s Vision for Bitcoin: Charlie Lee

Roger Ver, who founded Bitcoin. com was formerly a strong Bitcoin enthusiasts, until he lost interest in Bitcoin after it’s transaction fees went high and the duration for confirmation of transactions getting longer, which led to the hard forking of Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash in the third quarter of last year.

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Op Ed: There Is a Satoshi of Truth in Every Joke

This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.

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Coca Cola Vending Machine Operating On Lightning Network For Bitcoin Payments

We all dream of the day we can buy a coke (or other cola flavoured soft drink) through the power of the lightning network. Wouldn’t it be great if we could swap a few satoshi’s for a nice cold glass of coke? Well, now, thanks to the creative mind of Ricardo Reis, a hardware hacker from Spain, you can do just that.

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Novice, Intermediate or Expert? A Quiz to Test Your Bitcoin Knowledge

Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Lightning, Launches and Broken Promises

A handful of projects brought their tech to life this week, introducing new payment systems and coins to the industry’s offerings. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network makes headway for the dev community, and one of crypto’s older and more respected exchanges (arguably) takes a step against the space’s principles.

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ThunderMessage, Reddit’s Blockchain Rival, Uses Bitcoin & Lightning Network Features

ThunderMessage, a platform similar to that of Reddit, has added a new feature that might have helped the former overtake the latter. It has been revealed that users will have the opportunity to invest One Satoshi, which is equivalent to 0.

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This decentralized Reddit copycat lets you buy upvotes with Bitcoin

ThunderMessage is a decentralized take on Reddit powered by Bitcoin‘s Lightning Network – and it’s already full of shitposts. Just like in Reddit, users can post messages, and then upvote and downvote them.

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BTC’s Lightning Network Crosses 10,000 Channels with 100 Bitcoin Total Capacity

Lightning Network Crosses 10,000 Channels And Total Capacity Of About 100 Bitcoins The Lightning Network seems to be expanding into newer terrain in terms of its overall accessibility. Today, they reached a major milestone.

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Updated Edition of Blockchain Revolution Fills In Some Big Gaps

“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.

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Litecoin [LTC] creator Charlie Lee shows support for Bitcoin [BTC] Lightning Network

After advocating for SegWit’s activation on Litecoin and Bitcoin, Charlie Lee took to Twitter to display his enthusiasm for Bitcoin Art Gallery. It is a pixel art game powered by BTC Lightning Network that pays 1 Satoshi for changing 1 pixel on the board.

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‘Lightning War’: Bitcoin Battles Bitcoin Cash on a Digital Canvas

A digital canvas dubbed Satoshi’s Place appeared online, allowing users to draw whatever they find fit, one pixel at a time. The MS Paint-like experience costs one Satoshi per pixel and users are free to show off their talent in whatever form they find fit.

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Satoshi’s Place Is the New Battleground for Bitcoin Core and Cash Supporters

There aren’t many things that bitcoin core and bitcoin cash supporters can agree on. If the two camps were a couple, they could reasonably be described as having irreconcilable differences. When Satoshi’s Place, a virtual graffiti wall powered by the Lightning Network (LN) sprang up, it was inevitable that the BTC and BCH factions would […] The post Satoshi’s Place Is the New Battleground for Bitcoin Core and Cash Supporters appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Криптоэнтузиаст создал приложение-артборд на основе Lightning Network

Пользователь Twitter под ником Lightning KOala создал онлайн-панель, на которой все желающие могут рисовать цифровые картины. Своим проектом криптоэнтузиаст хотел продемонстрировать возможности сети Lightning Network для обработки микроплатежей.

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Артборд Satoshi’s Place стал первым приложением-убийцей от Lightning Network

Биткойн-энтузиаст разработал пиксельный артборд для демонстрации возможностей сети Lightning, где множество пользователей совместно рисуют цифровые картины  — пиксель за пикселем. 1 пиксель равен 1 сатоши.

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Op Ed: Venmo Offers the Ultimate Cryptocurrency Experience

Venmo could be the ultimate cryptocurrency experience from a user-experience perspective. Any cryptocurrency that seeks to power the future of global transactions must ensure that it is supported by a payment system that is simple, user-friendly and free — like Venmo.

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