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Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future. origin »
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In a historic first, Donald Trump is now the first U.S. President to ever accept Bitcoin Lightning Network payments.
2024-6-3 04:52 | |
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This offering aims to provide the integration of fast, cost-effective Lightning payments for developers and enterprise clients worldwide.
2023-10-12 11:15 | |
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The crypto payments provider on Wednesday announced immediate support for Bitcoin Lightning Network payments.
2022-4-7 17:48 | |
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Lightning Labs, a Bitcoin payments startup has raised $10 million in Series A funding to promote the development of the Lightning payments technology and scale its developer ecosystem. The startup has also launched its first paid product, Lightning Loop to facilitate a more efficient transfer of payments on the Lightning network, according to a blogRead MoreRead More.
2020-2-6 16:00 | |
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Muun, an Android application for Bitcoin and Lightning wallet use, will now let its users make non-custodial Lightning payments. According to the announcement, these payments will need zero channel configuration.
2019-5-15 04:00 | |
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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.
2019-1-11 18:02 | |
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Bitrefill is now offering a new way to mitigate Bitcoin’s expensive learning curve for users. During a conversation with CoinDesk, Bitrefill’s Thor service allows people to give lightning channels without the recipient having to set up anything.
2019-1-10 20:59 | |
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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.
2019-1-10 16:22 | |
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Bitrefill, a California-based that facilitates crypto payments, has launched its Thor Lightning Channel, a service that allows people to transfer bitcoin speedily and receive superfast payments via Bitrefill’s node on the Lightning Network, according to the firm on January 9, 2019.
2019-1-10 16:00 | |
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Now bitcoin users can send someone a lightning payment without the hassle of setting up channels.
2019-1-10 17:00 | |
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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.
2019-1-6 23:23 | |
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New user-friendly Bitcoin Lightning wallets such as Bluewallet are ushering in the future of payments. Users can now send and receive Bitcoin Lightning payments right to/from your mobile device, the ramifications of which could be revolutionary for the future of online payments.
2019-1-5 20:00 | |
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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.
2019-1-4 16:00 | |
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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.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Bluewallet appears to be setting the bar for the next generation of Bitcoin wallets. Available for both Android and iOS, it is the first to integrate the Lightning Network (LN) for super-quick and “unfairly cheap” transactions.
2019-1-1 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin passed more significant milestones this week as data reveals its Lightning Network (LN) implementation passed 500 BTC ($2,066,000) capacity for the first time. Lightning Network Sees Parabolic Rise Statistics from monitoring resource 1ML.
2018-12-24 18:00 | |
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Art Micro Auction Brings To Focus Bitcoins Lightening Network Art is expressive of its times, a certain je ne sais quoi that the artist wants to highlight. And that is exactly what was achieved when a recent auction was held for the artwork by Cryptograffiti, simply named the ‘Black Swan’. The piece is exactly what […]
2018-12-22 20:09 | |
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Crypto artist cryptograffiti sold a miniature piece of art to show that micropayments can work.
2018-12-22 22:03 | |
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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.
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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Bitcoin payment processor OpenNode has successfully concluded a seed round. The project has raised $1. 25 million with prominent Bitcoin proponent Tim Draper and Draper Associates. OpenNode Seals the Deal OpenNode is a bitcoin payment processor, describing itself as “the easiest way to accept bitcoin.
2018-12-20 19:00 | |
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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.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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Decentralized payment processor BTCPayServer now offers wallet support for c-lightning users. Following its most recent update, the BitPay alternative announced support for Spark Wallet, a client for the Lightning Network's c-lightning implementation created by Bitrated founder and Blockstream employee Nadav Ivgi.
2018-12-18 02:16 | |
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While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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Blockstream has expanded its bitcoin satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region and added support for Lightning Network transactions.
2018-12-18 20:00 | |
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A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin. me, has recently entered beta testing. The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit.
2018-12-13 22:09 | |
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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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Matthias Steinig, a German programmer, has developed a new mechanism that allows e-bikes to be rented in exchange for payments on the bitcoin Lightning Network. A prototype built using a modified bicycle is already fully functional and has been demonstrated in a video posted on Twitter.
2018-12-8 00:00 | |
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Технологическая блокчейн-компания Bitfury Group заключила партнерство с платежной системой Paytomat. В рамках сотрудничества Bitfury добавит возможность отправлять Lightning-платежи через криптовалютный кошелек и приложение для мерчантов от Paytomat.
2018-12-6 17:41 | |
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The Bitfury Group has recently announced a partnership with crypto payment processing system Paytomat, working to bring the Lightning Network to Paytomat’s participating merchants.
2018-12-6 22:48 | |
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Via an announcement made earlier this week, an executive spokesperson for Bitfury (a blockchain- based service company), said that his firm had officially entered into a partnership with global payment provider ‘PaytoMat’ so as to help bring Lightning Network payments to the masses.
2018-12-5 19:50 | |
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Bitcoin had a steady start as a medium of exchange and has slowly begun challenging the hundreds of decades-old fiat money system. Businesses are now moving towards developing systems which could aid the further adoption of the pioneer cryptocurrency over fiat.
2018-12-5 02:00 | |
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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.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Though there was a bit of stability yesterday, the decline would continue. First we expect BTC/USD to pull back ideally towards the $5,000–$5,500 before bear trend resumes. As we have seen, price drops are affecting chip-set manufacturers, investors and crypto payment processors as enthusiast refrain from spending BTC.
2018-11-22 05:00 | |
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Stablecoins have been a hot topic in 2018, and many different companies are creating cryptocurrencies for P2P payments. The USDX Wallet payment system stands out from these overly complicated and undeveloped projects by delivering rapid and secure transactions with the ease of sending a text.
2018-11-20 21:30 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin’s nascent mainnet implementation of the Lightning Network (LN) has reached a new milestone, passing 4,000 nodes for the first time. Lightning Handles $750K Data from monitoring resource 1ML confirms the latest growth of Bitcoin’s second layer designed for fast er and cheaper payments, Lightning Network, which at press time November 13 had a total of 4,026 nodes, of which 2,910 were public.
2018-11-14 05:00 | |
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W3C is developing new payment methods standards that will allow for in-browser Bitcoin payments.
2018-10-31 21:44 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency advocate Ricardo Reis has unveiled a vending machine that can accept Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network. This is potentially a big deal: if transactions can be reduced to milliseconds then Bitcoin could suddenly go mainstream.
2018-11-1 21:32 | |
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The Lightning Network is an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchain and smart contracts to enable instant payments across a network of participants. The Lightning Network enables instant payments at exceptionally, low fees with millions to billions of transactions per second, and cross-chain atomic swaps.
2018-10-31 13:00 | |
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Widely considered to be Ethereum’s answer to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network – the Raiden Network is an off-chain ERC20-compliant scaling solution for the transfer of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The solution offers benefits akin to the Lightning Network, including scalable, low-fee, instant, and privacy-focused payments.
2018-10-30 18:05 | |
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Independent Bitcoin advisor to institutional investors, Pierre Rochard recently claimed that he had developed a plugin for Microsoft Excel that could help users in making Bitcoin payments directly.
2018-10-30 16:29 | |
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First Bitcoin (BTC), then Litecoin (LTC), then…. Stellar (XLM)? Developers for the sixth-largest cryptocurrency have revealed the first rungs of a second-layer payments system, potentially opening the door to an instantaneous off-chain settlement with no fees.
2018-10-29 19:18 | |
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The Lightning Network (LN), the ultimate scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC), shows that it has an incredible potential. The founder of Bitcoin Advisory and software engineer, Pierre Rochard, developed a plugin for Microsoft Excel that would allow Bitcoin transactions to be processed through the LN using the popular spreadsheet. This new solution allows people that […]
2018-10-29 10:58 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Lightning Network has certainly inspired the home-brew hardware and software community to develop case-of-use scenarios for its micro-payments. On Yer Bike Following Poketoshi, a Coke vending machine, and a real Swiss cafe, a German hacker has now developed a lightning-powered e-bike.
2018-10-16 04:00 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?
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