“The advantage of Lightning is not just that you could scale up bitcoin for billions of people, or drive the transaction cost to nearly nothing, but also, the ethos of bitcoin is to go very carefully ...
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5 Ways To Make Money/ Earn Sats Using The Lightning Network
Earning sats for the first time is a magical experience and NewsBTC is here to guide you through it. The Lightning Network gave bitcoin real micro-transactions with extremely low fees. That opened up ...
NYDIG launches a Lightning Accelerator project dubbed “In Wolf’s clothing”
New York Digital Investments Group (NYDIG) is one of the largest investors in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings Group, Ross Stevens, appeared at BitBlockBoom in Austin, Texas, whe...
NYDIG Announced Lightning Accelerator Project “In Wolf’s Clothing”
The lightning accelerator project includes mentorship, funding, and work space with non-remote. The “In Wolf’s Clothing” project will be based in Manhattan, New York. The CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings G...
Bitcoin Lightning Network at regulatory risk after Tornado Cash saga
Policy Advisor Patrick Hansen posted his thoughts on the regulatory risk now facing the Bitcoin Lightning Network following sanctions against crypto mixer Tornado Cash. U.S. authorities added Tornado ...
Coinbase Highlights Lightning Network’s Potential Disruption of the $150,000,000,000 Payments Industry
Crypto exchange Coinbase says that the Lightning Network has the potential to disrupt the massive $150 billion payments industry. Lightning Network is a layer-2 scaling solution built on top of Bitcoi...
Researchers discover vulnerabilities in Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning Network
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network that could result in the theft of 750 BTCs (roughly $18 million). The two researchers, ...
Ford Raises Price for F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck
Text size Ford’s F-150 Lightning truck previously cost around $40,000 to $90,000. It now ranges up to $96,874. Courtesy of Ford Ford Motor has increased the price of its electric F-150 Lightning...
Bitcoin and Lightning Network for e-commerce- The Cryptonomist
OpenNode in partnership with Launch Cart have launched a new Bitcoin payment service on Lightning Network dedicated to e-commerce businesses. Bitcoin and Lightning Network for e-commerce: the new ser...
capacity exceeds 4500 BTC- The Cryptonomist
Lightning Network (LN) sets a new record, surpassing 4500 BTC in total capacity, the equivalent of $104 million. Lightning Network (LN) and capacity exceeding 4500 BTC New records for Bitcoin’s Layer...
Researchers discover critical Bitcoin Lightning Network vulnerability
University of Illinois researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Bitcoin’s most popular second layer scaling protocol, the Lightning Network. Cosimo Sguanci and Anastasios Sidiropoulos published ...
Ford’s New F-150 Lightning Truck to Get Price Hike
Updated Aug. 9, 2022 1:22 pm ET Listen to article (1 minute) Ford Motor new all-electric truck is getting a price increase fewer than four months after it started shipping to dealerships for the first...
Ford increasing price of electric F-150 Lightning
Ford F-150 Lightning trucks manufactured at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn Michigan. Courtesy: Ford Motor Co. DETROIT – Ford Motor on Tuesday said it is increasing the starting prices o...
I went to El Salvador: Lightning made it possible
Setting foot on El Salvadoran soil is something I have wanted to do since September 7th of last year, which was the day that the Central American country became the first nation to declare Bitcoin as ...
Move Over, Ethereum – Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Has Apps, Too
As of this writing, the Lightning Network’s capacity – the total amount of bitcoin in the network – has reached an all-time high of 4,351 BTC, equivalent to almost $100 million. The list of exchanges ...
Lightning Network payment rail, DeFi trading platform and blockchain security firm raise millions
Even with the onset of crypto winter, 2022 has been a watershed year for venture capital funding. Crypto and blockchain companies collectively raised $30.3 billion in venture capital in the first half...
Galoy Launches “Stablesats” Bringing US Dollar Balances to Lightning Network
Galoy – an open-source Bitcoin banking platform – has introduced a new feature allowing individuals to hold U.S. dollar balances over Bitcoin’s lightning network. However, unlike other attempts to bri...
Visa vs Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Visa vs Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: centralized payment network vs BTC’s dedicated second layer, how have transactions increased? Visa vs. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Recently, it was announced that ...
Bitcoin Lightning Network’s Capacity Rose By 34%: Here What It Means
Bitcoin Lightning Network is seemingly unaffected by the turbulence in the crypto market as it creates a new milestone. As per the data from Glassnode, on July 22nd, the total capacity of Bitcoin Ligh...
Bitcoin Lightning Network capacity rises to a new high amid bear market
The constant growth of the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) continues to accelerate after attaining another milestone undeterred by the ongoing crypto bear market. In particular, the Lightning Network’...
An Interview with Ben Caselin on AAX- Lightning Network Integration and TARO Protocol Implementation
One of the leading crypto platforms, AAX has been making waves with lots of new developments. Recently, the platform announced its integration with the Bitcoin Lightning Network, which was soon follow...
How Lightning Network outperforms Ethereum for tipping
The Canadian band The Carbons got a little more than just a tip during a live performance in Kelowna, British Columbia. When passerby Ben from BTCSessions, a Youtuber and Bitcoin (BTC) educator, saw t...
The FED Released A Study Of The Lightning Network. These Are Their Conclusions
Bitcoin is the FED’s new favorite subject. Fresh from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis measuring inflation in BTC terms, comes the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland with a study titled “The Light...
New historic record for the Lightning Network
On Monday, for the first time in history, the capacity of the Lightning Network (LN) exceeded 4,200 BTC. Bitcoin on Lightning Network channels This is the total number of Bitcoin locked on LN channel...
Lightning Network will power Bitcoin payments
Bitcoin’s critics often point to problems in the scalability and speed of the network. The fact that there is a limited capability of the Bitcoin network to handle large amounts of transaction data in...
Rivian Electric Trucks Outsell Ford F-150 Lightning, Stock Soars
Text size Rivian delivered 4,467 vehicles in the second quarter, up 264% from the first quarter. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive gave investors an update on production that quickly sent the stock hi...
OpenNode partners Lemon Cash to give Argentinians access to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Bitcoin payments infrastructure platform OpenNode has partnered with Lemon Cash, a popular cryptocurrency wallet provider in Latin America. Through the partnership, OpenNode will integrate Lightning N...
Bitcoin Lightning Network Hits ATH, Signalling Heightened Grounds for Adoption
The Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network continues going through the roof by making historic highs. As a layer two scaling solution on the Bitcoin network, the Lightning Network (LN) boosts the blockchain’...
Lightning Network: new historical record
In recent days, Lightning Network has set a new all-time high, a record 4 million BTC deposited on the network. New records for Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s layer 2 Bitcoin capacity accumulated acros...