Visa Head of Crypto Sees Bright Future for Bitcoin
Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto at credit card giant Visa, envisions Bitcoin Sats as the internet native unit of account for purchases less than one cent. He sees this as the main use...
Bitcoin Lightning Torch #2 Has Been Stolen 4 Times Already
The second iteration of the famous Bitcoin Lightning Torch has not been as successful as its first go-around last year. In just 8 days, the torch has already been stolen 4 times by...
Bitcoin Scaling: How Liquid Sidechain Could be Better Than Lightning
It is painfully clear that bitcoin needs to scale in terms of transactions if it is ever to be mass adopted as a peer-to-peer currency. Two solutions currently address the issue, the...
Bitcoin Worth Nearly $450 Million Moves For 25 Cents
Bitcoin showed just how inexpensive it can be as a tool for transferring value this morning. A 51,511 BTC transaction, worth almost $450 million, was sent for a fee of under 25 cents...
Here’s Why Bitcoin is Not a Pyramid Scheme
Lending Tree Chier Economist, Tendayi Kapfidze recently commented on Bitcoin, calling it a pyramid scheme, so here is why his view may be wrong. Over the course of the last 11 years...
Bitcoin Developer Throws Light on BTC’s Upcoming Future
Bitcoin (BTC) attracts the most attention with its price action. But the technological capabilities of the leading coin should not be underestimated. Bitcoin Network Evolves with...
3 Things Stopping Bitcoin From Returning to $20k
Bitcoin is known for its meteoric rises and plummeting dips, but the price has not seen much upward momentum over the past few months. Ever since Bitcoin topped $20k in December 2017...
Lightning Conference 2019 Highlights
The inaugural Lightning Conference was held in Berlin, Germany on the weekend of October 19/20, 2019. It was the first global conference exclusively focused on the Lightning Network...
4 Bitcoin ‘Loss’ On Lightning Network is FUD, Says...
A reported loss of 4 bitcoin on Lightning Network has been blamed on either user-negligence or FUD-spreading. Community members variously described the user as ‘an idiot’...
Lost Bitcoin Could Become Recoverable, Blockstream CEO Confirms
Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, says that the company is looking at implementing a method by which lost bitcoin will become recoverable. But before you stop trawling through the tip for...
Bitcoin-Integrated Battle Royale Game Lightnite Lets Players Earn BTC
Multi-player battle gaming can now happen on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, courtesy of Satoshis.Games. The platform, introduced during the latest LN conference, allows players to earn...
Bugs Discovered in Bitcoin Lightning Network Implementations, Fixed
Blockstream core engineer Rusty Russell discovered critical Bitcoin Lightning Network bugs that were affecting C-Lightning, Éclair, and Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) implementations...