Payment channels

Samsung is partnering with Coinbase to let 75 million U.S. Galaxy users access Bitcoin and crypto with Coinbase One’s premium features directly through Samsung Wallet, no extra apps required.

The third article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers the Lightning Network created by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja.

With an OP code arguably simpler than CTV, Actuaries could trustlessly solve the problem of everyone needing to be online to update a channel factory.

Developers are working out ways to brainstorm potential problems and test their solutions for certain shortcomings of the Lightning Network.

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is a Layer 2 technology that offers many advantages over altcoins for making Bitcoin into a peer-to-peer payments technology.

The Lightning Network operates on channels which require funding and necessitate fees — but is everyone participating for the same reason?

Running a Lightning Node has nuances but can be profitable and effective if done right.

Lightning Labs just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop, designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels without closing these channels entirely.

Blockstream has launched its satellite messaging application programming interface (API) on mainnet. Essentially, this means users can now broadcast data via the company’s satellite network and pay with Lightning payments.

The experiment has been making an impression on the bitcoin community; so far, Andreas Antonopoulos has been in on it, as has Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey who took up the flame from Matt Odell.