Crypto Is Far From Dead, as These Scaling Projects Show
Far from seeing the death of crypto, we may be entering its most exciting phase, argues Michael J. Casey.
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Dec 18, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. UTC
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Blockstream Boosts Bitcoin Satellite Service With Lightning Payments
Blockstream has expanded its bitcoin satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region and added support for Lightning Network transactions.
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Dec 17, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. UTC
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Lightning-Powered Blog Sees 20,000 Bitcoin Micropayments in 7 Months
The Lightning Network is already powering a real blogging platform with bitcoin micropayments.
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Nov 23, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Veteran Jameson Lopp Named CTO of Crypto Startup Casa
Casa has boosted Jameson Lopp to CTO eight months after he joined the crypto custody solutions startup as an infrastructure engineer.
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Nov 14, 2018 at 3:01 p.m. UTC
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Builders on Wall Street: Bitcoin Devs Host Lightning Hack Day
At the Lightning Hackday, it was hard to keep up with all the futuristic ideas for bitcoin's layer-two, but some devs are focusing on the basics.
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Nov 4, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
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The New Effort to Get Bitcoin's Lightning Network In Every Browser
Devs are looking to make bitcoin's layer-two lightning network compatible with a payment standard used by all major browsers – and so far, so good.
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Oct 30, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
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To Scale Bitcoin, Little Improvements Will Need to Go a Long Way
Bitcoin Cash and SegWit in the past, it was a non-contentious year for the bitcoin developer community's annual Scaling Bitcoin conference.
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Oct 9, 2018 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Startup Acinq Raises $1.7 Million to Double Down on Lightning
A new funding round shows that lightning technology isn't just a big hit with bitcoin developers - investors are getting interested, too.
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Oct 4, 2018 at 5:00 a.m. UTC
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Quick Brew? Bitfury's Coffee Machine Accepts Bitcoin Via Lightning Network
A Bitfury-led engineering team has created a coffee vending machine capable of accepting bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network.
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Sep 20, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. UTC
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This Tech Lets You Send Any Cryptocurrency to the Lightning Network
A new type of lightning tech for swapping different types of transactions is seeing new tests with real money on the line.
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Sep 8, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. UTC
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