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This guide will show you how to quickly and easily protect your funds in your Bitcoin Lightning channel.The Lightning Network is a trustless* Layer 2 network for Bitcoin and brings forth many improvements in speed and cost of final settlement. I use an asterisk on trustless because although it is, there are a few caveats to take into consideration so that your...

Today Bitcoin personal server and node developer Umbrel announced it has raised $3 million in seed round funding.Today Bitcoin personal server and node developer Umbrel announced it has raised $3 million in seed round funding. The funds will be used to accelerate development at Umbrel and to build out the team at the startup.Mayank Chhabra, cofounder and CEO at Umbrel commented,...

Today Umbrel presented new research that showed 90% of the lightning nodes brought online in the last year run on the company’s software.Today Umbrel presented new research that showed 90% of the lightning nodes brought online in the last year run on the company’s software, which allows users to run a Bitcoin Lightning node and other software from their own personal server....

Following these steps makes implementing bitcoin at your business easy as can be.Dear Business OwnersDon’t you love giving away 3% or more of every sale to Visa and Mastercard? And isn’t it even better when people whip out their Amex? Who doesn’t like those fees? Oh, that’s right. Business owners don’t.Would you offer your customers a payment method which eliminates...

Umbrel partnered with The Bitcoin Machines to offer a plug-and-play all- aluminum node and server combo.Umbrel, an operating system (OS) purposefully built for running a Bitcoin node, Lightning Network node, and other self- hosted applications on a Raspberry Pi, announced today a partnership with Bitcoin node hardware maker The Bitcoin Machines to offer a plug-and-play Umbrel server solution.“The server...

This week, open-source Bitcoin and Lightning Network node developer Umbrel released a significant update to its operating system, bringing a list of notable improvements to its wallet and UX, plus several additions to its celebrated Umbrel App Store. The Umbrel App Store was released December 2020 and has brought single-click...

Open-source Bitcoin and Lightning Network node developer Umbrel has released an update including multiple sovereignty-enhancing features.A research paper from the University of Qatar...