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Tech
Visa
Another Bitcoin Lightning Startup Is Working With Visa to 'Fast Track' Card Payments
With help from the Visa Fast Track program, LastBit will let users make any purchase with bitcoin, without needing the merchant to actively accept it.
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By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 25, 2020 at 2:29 p.m. UTC
Aug 25, 2020
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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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By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 20, 2020 at 5:31 p.m. UTC
Aug 20, 2020
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Finance
Derivatives
Bitcoin DeFi May Be Unstoppable: What Does It Look Like?
Bitcoin veterans are about to join the decentralized finance (DeFi) bull run, and they are taking a very different approach than Ethereum fans.
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By Leigh Cuen
Aug 17, 2020 at 7:24 a.m. UTC
Aug 17, 2020
DerivativesBitcoinLightning NetworkDeFi
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Blockstream
'Rat Poison Squared on Steroids': What's New in Bitcoin's Latest Lightning Release
With a sly poke at Warren Buffet's comment that Bitcoin is "rat poison squared," c-lightning developers' latest release adds some key new Lightning features.
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By Alyssa Hertig
Aug 4, 2020 at 6:47 p.m. UTC
Aug 4, 2020
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To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments
Online censorship and surveillance will persist as long as local fiat currencies are the only way to pay for telecommunication services.
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By Richard Myers
Jul 29, 2020 at 8:34 p.m. UTC
Jul 29, 2020
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Lightning Startup Zap Raised $3.5M for Bitcoin App Ahead of Visa Deal
The Lightning startup Zap Inc. just raised its first round to build out both mobile bitcoin wallet services and a Visa partnership in 2020.
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By Leigh Cuen
Jul 16, 2020 at 8:26 p.m. UTC
Jul 16, 2020
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Privacy
CoinSwap and the Ongoing Effort to Make Bitcoin Privacy 'Invisible'
Developer Chris Belcher has set his sights on making CoinSwap a reality – a new project he hopes will "massively improve bitcoin privacy."
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By Alyssa Hertig
Jul 13, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Jul 13, 2020
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Markets
Lightning network
Listen: What a Bitcoin Researcher Says About Lightning
Chaincode Labs researcher Clara Shikhelman has been studying mathematics in university since she was 14 years old. Now, as the bitcoin company’s newest post-doctoral fellow, s...
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By Leigh Cuen
Jul 12, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 12, 2020
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Finance
Europe
Bitcoin App Bottlepay Is Back From the Dead With a New Lightning App
Bottlepay remodeled its whole product to comply with EU regulations. Roughly 1,000 people are now on the waitlist for the app's relaunch.
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By Leigh Cuen
Jul 10, 2020 at 6:50 p.m. UTC
Jul 10, 2020
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Wallets
Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine Swaps
In its latest major release, Electrum now supports a number of innovations that could make using Lightning more secure and less bumpy for users.
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By Alyssa Hertig
Jul 10, 2020 at 4:42 p.m. UTC
Jul 10, 2020
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