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CULTURE

A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 1: A Match Made in the Whitepaper

Giacamo Zucco - March 18, 2020

In Part 1 of 2, Giacomo Zucco explores the fundamental relationship between Bitcoin and privacy by going back to the beginning with the whitepaper.

CULTURE

What We Can Learn About Lightning From #LNTrustChain2: Part 2

Tony Sanak - March 3, 2020

Data about specific payment requests from #LNTrustchain2 can provide us with insight into privacy-related aspects of Lightning Network use.

CULTURE

How the Lighting Network Could Improve Encrypted Messaging

Colin Harper - March 3, 2020

Lightning-native messaging protocols could offer more private and foolproof encrypted communications. But will users make the switch?

TECHNICAL

What We Can Learn About Lightning From #LNTrustChain2: Part 1

Tony Sanak - February 25, 2020

The data about specific payment requests from #LNTrustchain2 can provide us with insight into consumer-related aspects of Lightning Network adoption.

TECHNICAL

Paying Yourself? Self-Payments Could Be a Key to Lightning Privacy

Aaron van Wirdum - February 10, 2020

Pseudonymous Lightning developer ZmnSCPxj has proposed self-payments as a way of adding more privacy to Lightning Network transactions.

TECHNICAL

Lightning Labs Announces $10 Million Raise As Lightning Loop Enters Beta

Aaron van Wirdum - February 5, 2020

Lightning Labs announced a $10 million Series A funding round and released its Lightning Loop service in beta.

MARKETS

With Strike, Zap Rethinks Its Olympus Fiat-to-Bitcoin Feature

Colin Harper - January 29, 2020

Zap’s Olympus would have let users buy bitcoin with fiat on the Lightning Network. A new feature called Strike changes how this will be done.

TECHNICAL