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Integrating Statechains With Lightning Channels Can Allow For Off-Chain Balancing And Improved Flexibility

[Dec 21, 2022 7:00 PM] A Commerceblock BLIP facilitates Lightning channels built on Bitcoin statechains, improving flexibility for the Layer 2 protocol.Last year, I wrote about Commerceblock's Mercury Wallet, an implementation of both statechains and CoinSwaps. This…

Crowdfunding gets leg up from Lightning Addresses on Bitcoin

[Dec 20, 2022 4:36 AM] Lightning Addresses allow individuals to crowdfund on Bitcoin at the speed of the Lightning Network and without a node.

Scaling Bitcoin With Lightning As A Service Makes It Money That Really Matters

[Dec 13, 2022 7:00 AM] Developing Lighting as a Service (LaaS) removes friction from bitcoin and gives users the experiences they crave.This is an opinion editorial by Roy Sheinfeld, the cofounder and CEO of Breez, a Lightning Network mobile app.Ready for a hot take?…

Not medical advice: Bitcoiner implants Lightning chip to make BTC payments by hand

[Dec 13, 2022 1:30 AM] A Bitcoiner has literally taken the Lightning Network into his own hands, installing a tiny payment chip into his hands to make NFC contactless payments.

Bitcoin Lightning Network to be used in fiat transfers between EU and Africa

[Dec 12, 2022 4:40 AM] CoinCorner and Bitnob teamed up to create cross-border transactions between the UK and Europe to Africa via the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

How Dozens Of Denver Middle Schoolers Became Bitcoin Entrepreneurs

[Dec 11, 2022 9:00 AM] An entrepreneurship program for middle schoolers in Denver equipped participants with sats and lessons in what makes Bitcoin the future.This is an opinion editorial by Ryan Brisch, Anthony Feliciano and Mark Maraia, who recently spent a few weeks…

The Future Of Venture Capital Is Investing In Bitcoin-Only Companies

[Dec 8, 2022 10:40 AM] Among the plethora of investors in the crypto world, there is a niche that shares common visions and strategies. They are the Bitcoin-only venture capitalists.“The smartest people in the world are working on Bitcoin, they’re not…

The blockchain trilemma: Can it ever be tackled?

[Dec 7, 2022 12:33 PM] Blockchain trilemma is arguably the hardest technical problem to solve within Web3. How are blockchain networks approaching this?

Bitcoin advocate dishes out sats over Lightning Network to raise BTC awareness

[Dec 6, 2022 7:30 AM] A Twitter user from the United Kingdom spent hours sending micropayments to strangers on the internet to demonstrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

Strike partners with Bitnob to facilitate cross-border payments into Africa

[Dec 6, 2022 4:43 AM] On stage at AfroBitcoin, Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced plans to improve remittance payments into Africa thanks to the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.

Maturation Of The Lightning Network: Growing Up By Going Vertical

[Nov 30, 2022 1:00 PM] Like our hunter-gatherer ancestors, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is maturing toward mass adoption through specialization and sophistication.This is an opinion editorial by Roy Sheinfeld, the cofounder and CEO of Breez, a Lightning Network mobile…

Bitcoin mining revenue lowest in two years, hash rate on the decline

[Nov 27, 2022 12:40 AM] The total Bitcoin mining revenue — block rewards and transaction fees — in U.S. dollars fell down to $11.67 million, a number last seen on Nov. 2, 2020, when Bitcoin’s trading price was around $13,500.

Data Shows That Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Solved The Scalability Problem

[Nov 24, 2022 9:30 AM] A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way.This is an opinion editorial by Stanislav Kozlovski, a software engineer and macroeconomic researcher.Many Bitcoiners…

Subway accepts Bitcoin, so users can get a sandwich on the Lightning Network

[Nov 9, 2022 1:00 PM] The largest franchise in the world, Subway, is testing out the Lightning Network layer-2 Bitcoin payments solution and receiving encouraging results in Berlin, Germany.