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Lightning Labs Co-Founder on Taro Protocol, Future of Bitcoin Lightning Network
Lightning Labs Co-Founder on Taro Protocol, Future of Bitcoin Lightning Network
Lightning Labs Co-founder and CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun, also known on social media as “roasbeef,” shares insights into the Lightning Network’s latest Taproot-powered “Taro” prot...
Lightning Labs Co-Founder on Taro Protocol, Future of Bitcoin Lightning Network

Lightning Labs CTO ‘Roasbeef’ on the Purpose and Progress of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Lightning Labs CTO ‘Roasbeef’ on the Purpose and Progress of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has reached a new milestone, exceeding 2,000 BTC. Referred to as a “second layer” system, it is designed to reduce the time and fees to send bitcoi...
Lightning Labs CTO ‘Roasbeef’ on the Purpose and Progress of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

The Future of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
The Future of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
Lightning Labs co-founder and CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun, also known on social media as “Roasbeef,” discusses the future of bitcoin and the Lightning Network, which some hail as t...
The Future of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network

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Nodes on Bitcoin's Lightning Network Double in 3 Months
It took a whole year for the node count to double from 5,000 to 10,000. Three months later, it's over 23,000.
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The Lightning Network Is Going to Change How You Think About Bitcoin
The recent bull run was largely about bitcoin as an asset. The Lightning Network is a grander vision, and developers say it's slowly becoming a reality.
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Lightning Network's New Liquidity Marketplace Attracts a ‘Surprising’ Mix of Individuals, Enterprises
Lightning Labs’ new liquidity marketplace, Lightning Pool, has seen more early-stage growth than its creators expected.
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity
Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity.
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New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade
Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms.
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Total Value on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Sets Another Record High Amid Market Rally
The layer 2 protocol holds $12.4 million worth of bitcoins.
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Ready to Wumbo: LND Enables More, Larger Bitcoin Transactions on Lightning
LND now supports Lightning Network wumbo channels. These channels have the capacity to hold more funds, and users can send larger bitcoin transactions.
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