WikiLeaks Shop Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning Payments
In 2011, WikiLeaks was among the first organizations to accept donations in bitcoin. Now its shop is taking bitcoin payments over Lightning.
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Jul 9, 2020 at 6:29 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin's Lightning Network Is Vulnerable to 'Looting': New Research Explains
Computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have examined the Lightning Network's "flood and loot" attack that preys on Bitcoin network congestion.
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Jul 6, 2020 at 7:34 p.m. UTC
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Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain
Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos.
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Jul 1, 2020 at 4:10 p.m. UTC
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One Man's Mission to Deploy Solar-Powered Bitcoin Nodes Across Africa
A Nigerian entrepreneur has released a $500 kit for building solar-powered Lightning nodes in hopes of expanding bitcoin adoption across Africa.
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Jun 16, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
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Bootstrapping Mobile Mesh Networks With Bitcoin Lightning
Richard Myers says the future of ad-hoc mesh networks for SMS messages and bitcoin transactions on your smartphone is here, but it needs the Lightning Network to succeed.
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Jun 14, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
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Why This Dev Built a 'Centralized Ethereum' on Top of Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Ethereum showed the limits of decentralization, says the creator of an explicitly centralized version that pays contracts via Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
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Jun 12, 2020 at 8:01 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum Has Become Bitcoin's Top Off-Chain Destination
The most popular way to use bitcoin off-chain is on Ethereum, recent data indicates.
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Jun 4, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
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Lightning Network Overhaul Could Strengthen Bitcoin Privacy – But Many 'Ifs' Remain
Bitcoin developers are exploring Point Timelock Contracts (PTLCs) to improve the privacy of payments on the Lightning Network.
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Jun 3, 2020 at 8:01 a.m. UTC
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Bitcoiners Sprint to Improve Lightning Network in 2-Day Virtual Hackathon
Unable to meet in person, developers around the world collaborated by videoconference for a 48-hour stretch to refine Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
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Jun 2, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
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IOV Labs Takes on Lightning Network With New Light Client
IOV Labs, which builds platforms secured by bitcoin’s hash rate, launched Wednesday a light client for the Lumino Payments Network, its smart contract-compatible rival to the...
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May 13, 2020 at 9:15 p.m. UTC
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