Reading Time: 2 minutes Strike’s ‘Send Globally’ platform is to be rolled out in the Philippines The deal with Pouch.ph...
Bitcoin's adoption into the mainstream - not only as a store of value but also as a means of payment - took a big step forward today. As Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced via Twitter, the Bitcoin Lightning Network went live yesterday with Clover. On Twitter, Mallers announced that Strike is now an integrated partner with payments...
If healthcare providers were to adopt bitcoin, patients would see free-market and affordability improvements.This is an opinion editorial by Robert Hall, a content creator and small business owner.Nothing is more critical to long-term health than having access to healthcare when needed. But every jurisdiction around the world implements this process differently....
Bitcoin and Lightning Network technology alone will not be enough to change our financial system. New social systems are needed too.This is an opinion editorial by Frank Nuessle, a publishing entrepreneur, former university professor and social system architect.In this essay, I argue that Bitcoin and the Lightning Network are, by themselves, not enough to successfully implement an American sound...
Bitcoin Lightning applications that MicroStrategy plans to release include enterprise infrastructure services and content monetization solutions, Saylor said.MicroStrategy will release software applications and solutions powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Network in 2023.MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor spoke about his company’s plans in a Twitter Spaces room on Wednesday, shedding light on...
A protocol proposal from Antoine Riard seeks to mitigate Lightning Network channel jamming attacks with a Chaumian ecash token.This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech- oriented Bitcoin podcast host.Channel jamming is one of the most threatening outstanding problems with the Lightning Network. It presents an open mechanism to denial-of-service...
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? Check this: Money has no inherent value. And, besides being a special kind of money that allows for disintermediated transfers, the same...
A Swiss IT specialist has surgically implanted a Bitcoin Lightning Network chip into his hand, to help make BTC contactless payments via the network. The Bitcoin community is still in shock over the Lightning Network. F418, a Swiss IT specialist who went under another name, had a Lightning Network (LN) payment chip surgically inserted into […] The post...
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 helping 85 middle schoolers operate a pop-up shop running on Bitcoin's Lightning Network.On November 18, 2022, about 85 students braved a cold snowy...
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 working on some other project," Mike Jarmuz told Bitcoin Magazine. "They're not working on altcoins or selling real estate in a metaverse...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Strike has announced Send Globally, a feature that brings Bitcoin payments to Africa based on the Lightning Network...
Bitcoin payment provider, Strike has partnered with African payments platform Bitnob to enable instant payments to Africa. During a conference in Ghana, Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced that the Bitcoin ( BTC $16,948) payments company has partnered with the mobile app Bitnob to facilitate payments into Africa. On stage at AfroBitcoin, a Bitcoin conference in […] The post...
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 app. A version of this article was originally published on...
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 have heard of Bitcoin's "lack of scalability" -- it is one of the most common critiques waged against the project by both gluttonous cryptocurrency...
Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, and Udi Wertheimer, a recovering Bitcoin maxi, talk about Bitcoin Maximalism, how Bitcoin is developing, and what’s the future of Bitcoin’s security model. Show highlights: What the definition of Bitcoin maximalism is whether BTC maximalism is toxic whether Vitalik Buterin is still a bitcoiner and how Bitcoiners became the 'token...
The Stone Ridge startup accelerator is an 8-week program that will run four times in a year with its focus on Bitcoin Lightning Network and the Taro protocol. Stone Ridge, the parent company of Bitcoin company NYDIG, has created In Wolf's Clothing (Wolf), the first startup accelerator that focuses on the Bitcoin Lightning Network and […] The post...
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cashapp has rolled out full Lightning Network integration The push was announced in February but now it has arrived U.S. users (excepting New York) can now send and receive over the Lightning Network Payment app Cashapp has rolled out...
One developer brought down LND nodes with a massive multisignature transaction, causing issues across the Lightning Network for a short period of time.Watch This Episode On YouTube Or...
CoinCorner, a Bitcoin card payment service provider, is looking to install "tap-to-pay" near-field communication services (NFC) card readers across El Salvador using Lightning Network (LN). CoinCorner is launching the Bitcoin Lightning services in El Salvador, and CoinCorner has collaborated with IBEX, a provider of lightning infrastructure services, to expand NFC support across local companies. Bitcoin […] The post...
BTC added the layer-2 protocol to mitigate the scaling challenges, Bitcoin Lightning Network (BLN). The BLN was created to offer better scalability, make transactions cheaper, and increase the transaction speed on Bitcoin Network. Scalability has been a deterrent factor to the mass adoption of many cryptocurrencies. For example, High transaction fees and slow speed are some of the challenges encountered on the Bitcoin...
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