Lightning network
Blockstack Summit Tackles the Future of Decentralization
Following a week of bombshell developments in the industry, from the SEC classifying the DAO Tokens as securities to the arrest of Alexander Vinnik...
SegWit or Not, Bitfury is Getting Ready for Lightning With Successful Bitcoin Main Net Test
Bitfury is getting ready to deploy a version of the Lightning network with or without the SegWit protocol upgrade.
Samson Mow Introduces Liquid Networks at Blockchain Forum in Canada
Blockstream’s Samson Mow and Paycase’s Joseph Weinberg unveiled the Liquid network yesterday at the Blockchain Association of Canada’s Government Forum in Ottawa, as a...
Christian Decker on Bitcoin Network Improvements, Tradeoffs and Finding the Block Size “Sweet Spot”
At the core of Bitcoin’s scaling debate has been the block size limit. For better or worse, the majority of the discussions about scaling...
Colu Announces Colored Coins and Lightning Network Integration
Colu, an Israeli provider of blockchain-based technologies, has built a version of Lightning Labs' code that is compatible with Colored Coins. This would allow...
Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 3: Completing the Puzzle and Closing the Channel
The Lightning Network is probably the most highly anticipated technological innovation that will be deployed on top of Bitcoin. The payment layer, first proposed...
Exploring the Centralization Risks of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
For the vast majority of Bitcoin Core contributors, the Lightning Network is viewed as the best option for scaling Bitcoin to many millions of...
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...
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