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...
Is Lightning Network the Most Optimum Bitcoin Scaling Solution?
The Lightning Network has been subject to controversy since it’s rise to prominence in 2016. Championed as BTC’s solution to scaling, thousands of people in the Bitcoin community...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Expands 100% In H1 2019
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...