Lightning network
Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling Bitcoin
Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually...
MultiBit’s Jim Burton: Satoshi’s Vision of a Peer-to-Peer Currency Needs Bigger Blocks
Jim Burton, the British lead developer of “lightweight” Bitcoin client MultiBit, favors a rapid block-size increase in order to allow for more transactions on...
Debunking the 11 Most Stubborn Lightning Network Myths
Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of...
Notable Bitcoin Core Contributors Now Open to Increasing Block-size Limit to 2 or 4MB
Although some individuals in the Bitcoin community believed that nothing would come out of the recent Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Montreal, it seems that...
Blockstream Moves Ahead with Sidechain Elements, the First Implementation of Sidechains
The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, formed the company Blockstream to implement sidechains...
Blockstream Starts Development on the Lightning Network
The authors of the much-discussed Bitcoin Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, have formed the company Blockstream to develop...