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Vaultoro’s Bitcoin-to-Gold Exchange Implements Lightning Network Payments

This marks the first time a bitcoin exchange has implemented the Lightning Network as an instant deposit method.

WikiLeaks Store Loses Coinbase Support, Still Processing Sales

With Coinbase out, WikiLeaks’ online shop continues to use CoinPayments for cryptocurrency payments, accepting bitcoin and a variety of altcoins.

Santander Launches International Payment Service Built On Ripple’s xCurrent

Santander's OnePay FX is built on xCurrent, Ripple’s enterprise software solution for cross-border interbank payments with end-to-end tracking.

First Lightning Network Wallet App Now Available via Google Play

“The Eclair Wallet is a next-generation, Lightning-ready Bitcoin wallet. It can be used as a regular Bitcoin wallet, and can also connect to the Lightning Network for cheap and instant payments."

Not a Month Into Beta, Lightning Applications Continue to Grow

Just as smart contracts brought DApps to Ethereum’s network, the Lightning Network is primed to bring a host of Lightning apps to Bitcoin.

The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta

The Lightning Network, the long-awaited Bitcoin overlay network for cheap and instant transactions, has passed a major milestone that has been years in the making. This is the story so far.

BitPay Raises $40M in Series B Funding to Expand into Emerging Asian Markets

While the price of bitcoin continues to loom around the $7,000 range, Bitcoin payments seem to be holding strong in various parts of the...

Newegg to Accept Bitcoin Payments from Canadian Customers

Newegg Inc., the online e-commerce site that is rivaling Amazon for sales in technical equipment and electronics, is expanding its payment options to include...

Sharing Your Identity? Get Paid in ShoCoin

Encouraging early adoption is always a hurdle when launching a new technology – especially one that is trying to crack a problem that has...

Op Ed: The Many Faces of Sharding for Blockchain Scalability

Any programmer who has ever sat down to build a DApp at one point has had to think about the limits of current public...

Stellar Gears Up to Implement Lightning Network

The Stellar network team has announced that they will be integrating the Lightning Network.

Lightning’s First Implementation Is Now in Beta; Developers Raise $2.5M

lnd 0.4-beta release marks a milestone in the development of the Lightning Network.

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