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StarkPay Offers an Improved Lightning Network Solution on Ethereum

August 17, 2019 10:18 pm

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Making cryptocurrency and blockchain payments more viable remains an ongoing battle. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network offers some relief, yet opinions on this technology remain somewhat divided. StarkPay is a new solution which aims to provide scalable and non-custodial blockchain payments to…

Bitcoin Is Bad for Payments, But Lightning Solves This: Samson Mow

August 16, 2019 9:31 am

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Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Samson Mow says Bitcoin (BTC) is bad for payments but the Lightning Network solves this. Mow — who is also a co-founder of formerly top cryptocurrency exchange BTCC — made his remarks in an interview…

Bitcoin Lightning Network Expands 100% In H1 2019

August 5, 2019 1:12 pm

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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) has almost doubled its node count and capacity in the first half of 2019, new data shows. Bitcoin Lightning Doubles In H1 Statistics from monitoring resource Coin Gecko confirmed the network’s capacity expanded 87% in the…

Bitcoin Lightning Nodes Claimed 2.22 BTC in ‘Justice’ Against Thieves: BitMEX

July 15, 2019 9:36 am

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Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network nodes have claimed 2.2 BTC in “justice transactions” to deter potential thieves, a BitMex Research analysis revealed on July 15. A so-dubbed “justice transaction” is a punitive mechanism involving the closure of a lightning channel that…

Bitstamp Commitment to Bitcoin Scalability, Launching a Lightning Network Node

July 11, 2019 12:55 pm

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The Lightning Network (LN), Bitcoin’s most significant off chain scaling protocol is now available to the Bitstamp community. The European cryptocurrency exchange has announced the set up of a Lightning Network node. In the July 8 announcement, the crypto exchange…

Bitcoin Startup Brings Lightning Network Payments to Amazon, Whole Foods

July 11, 2019 10:51 am

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United States-based payments startup Fold has made Lightning Network (LN) payments possible at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber and other big name retailers. The news was revealed in an official blog post published on July 10. As previously reported, the Bitcoin (BTC)…

20K Addresses Hold $1 of Bitcoin and More, Use In Micropayments Far From Reality

July 11, 2019 8:43 am

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Despite recent weakness, Bitcoin is trending higher. Encouragingly, there are predictions that this could Bull Run could push it to the $100,000 mark. The excitement over its value aside, crypto users on Reddit are taking on a rather unpleasant facet…

Bitstamp Unveils Bitcoin Lightning Network Node

July 9, 2019 12:20 pm

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On July 8 the Lightning Network got a huge publicity boost as Bitstamp announced that it had launched its own Lightning node. Another Step Toward Widespread Adoption On Monday Bitstamp revealed that it had launched a Bitcoin Lightning node to…

Why Is Lightning Network Capacity Decreasing?

July 7, 2019 6:08 pm

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The Lightning Network is often touted as the solution to Bitcoin’s scaling challenges and has shown tremendous growth with total channel capacity for the off-chain payments network reaching 1100 BTC in early May, just over a year since it began…

Bitcoin Lightning Network Hits $11M Capacity; Updates

June 28, 2019 8:49 pm

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Bitcoin’s scaling solution, the Lightning Network, is currently sitting at a capacity of around $11M. More interestingly, though, there are major updates underway already. Eltoo Coming to Lightning Network A user going by the name of u/almkglor has taken to…

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