Rusty Russell

The second Bolt-A-Thon will take place via livestream in December 2019. Presentations and a hackathon are expected to boost the Lightning Network.

Bolt-A-Thon, a virtual Lightning Network hackathon and conference kicks off today to help gather contributors from all over the world and propel Bitcoin’s vital Layer 2 solution.

Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been how the system is going to eventually...

Bitcoin requires decentralization of miners (or mining pools) and full nodes to achieve what some consider its core property: censorship resistance. As such,...

Lightning networks are considered a promising innovation in the Bitcoin space, which would make the Bitcoin system much more scalable and able to process...

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...