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Lightning
Are Bitcoin Developers Losing Faith in Lightning?
High-profile defections, and ongoing criticism from the community, paints a picture of a much-hyped scaling project running out of steam. But bitcoiners have always been critical of the leading scaling solution.
The Bitcoin Halving Could Accelerate Consumer Adoption of BTC
By spurring adoption of secondary scaling layers like Lightning, the halving could make using bitcoin less expensive and more accessible — or in a word, more like other monies, Azteco's David Bailey writes.
Lisa Neigut: Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin
The Blockstream developer has been working on what she calls “Lightning v2” since 2019, and it’s poised to launch by year’s end.
Coinbase Looks to Add Bitcoin Lightning for Payments
The move is part of the exchange's broader plan to improve cryptocurrency-based payments globally.
Lightning Network Bitcoin Deposits Now Live on Binance
Binance joins Kraken and Bitfinex in offering lightning network deposits.
Apple Rejects Bitcoin Wallet Zeus a Day After Threatening to Delist Damus
Apple (AAPL) has rejected the latest version of non-custodial Lightning-enabled bitcoin wallet Zeus, according to a tweet by Zeus founder Evan Kaloudis. This comes a day after the tech giant threatened to delist Damus, a decentralized social media platform that runs on the Nostr protocol. "The Hash" panel weighs in.
Lightning Data Analytics Firm Amboss Launches New ‘Liner’ Index for Bitcoin Yield
The company says the new index dubbed Lightning Network Rate (Liner) could be like Bitcoin’s version of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a global reference rate for loans. Liner complements Magma, the Lightning liquidity marketplace launched by Amboss last year.
Solving Lightning’s ‘Inbound Liquidity’ Problem Is Focus of New Layer 2 Bitcoin Protocol, Ark
The new protocol’s 24-year-old creator says Lightning’s inbound liquidity requirement - requiring users to commit funds to the protocol even when they're just receiving payments – “doesn’t make any sense.”
MicroStrategy’s Saylor Integrates Bitcoin Lightning Address Into Corporate Email
The Lightning Address protocol allows users to send bitcoin over the Lightning Network to a wallet identifier resembling a conventional email address.
