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The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta

The Lightning Network, the long-awaited Bitcoin overlay network for cheap and instant transactions, has passed a major milestone that has been years in the making. This is the story so far.

BitPay Raises $40M in Series B Funding to Expand into Emerging Asian Markets

While the price of bitcoin continues to loom around the $7,000 range, Bitcoin payments seem to be holding strong in various parts of the...

Newegg to Accept Bitcoin Payments from Canadian Customers

Newegg Inc., the online e-commerce site that is rivaling Amazon for sales in technical equipment and electronics, is expanding its payment options to include...

Sharing Your Identity? Get Paid in ShoCoin

Encouraging early adoption is always a hurdle when launching a new technology – especially one that is trying to crack a problem that has...

Op Ed: The Many Faces of Sharding for Blockchain Scalability

Any programmer who has ever sat down to build a DApp at one point has had to think about the limits of current public...

Stellar Gears Up to Implement Lightning Network

The Stellar network team has announced that they will be integrating the Lightning Network.

Lightning’s First Implementation Is Now in Beta; Developers Raise $2.5M

lnd 0.4-beta release marks a milestone in the development of the Lightning Network.

Russian IT Giant Mail.Ru Enables Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Payments

Using BitPay, users can pay and be paid with bitcoin and bitcoin cash on Mail.Ru sites, as well as on social networks Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte.

Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 Is Released: Here’s What’s New

Here’s an overview of some of the most notable changes.

Sidechains: Why These Researchers Think They Solved a Key Piece of the Puzzle

One developing technology called sidechains promises to make it easier to move tokens across blockchains and, as a result, open the doors to a world of possibilities.

Bitcoin Transaction Fees Are Pretty Low Right Now: Here’s Why

Take a look at where the fees have dropped - and make sure you aren't paying too much.

Blockstream Releases Lightning Charge, Launches Test E-Commerce Store

Following the release of the first Bitcoin Lightning Network white paper, published in February 2015, developers have been working on Lightning Network implementations to...
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