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This Spongebob-Themed Tech Proves That Bitcoin's Lightning Is Advancing

Spongebob Squarepants term "wumbo" has been appropriated to describe one of the next milestones for bitcoin's lightning network.

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State of Lightning: What's the Path for Network Adoption in 2019?

The "instant payments" network running atop bitcoin saw fast user adoption levels in 2018. Will the trend continue this year?

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Bitfury Releases Merchant, Developer Tools for Bitcoin's Lighting Network

Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has released a suite tools aimed to drive adoption of bitcoin’s lightning network.

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Genesis, BitGo Team Up to Ease Crypto Trading for Institutions

BitGo and Genesis Global Trading are targeting Wall Street institutions with a new high-speed crypto trading service.

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New Bitrefill Service Aims to Make Lightning Payments Easy

Now bitcoin users can send someone a lightning payment without the hassle of setting up channels.

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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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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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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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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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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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