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Lightning Network One Step Closer to Reality as Lightning Labs Announces Alpha Release

Aaron van Wirdum -
Lightning Labs, one of the prominent companies working to realize thelightningnetwork, announced this week the alpha release of the open-source lightning daemon they've been spearheading:...
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Op Ed: Here’s Why the Bitcoin Price Skyrocketed in 2016 Despite Scalability Concerns

Kyle Torpey -
For the past two years, the main topic of conversation in the Bitcoin community has been the scalability debate. While the peer-to-peer digital currency...
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As User Base Grows, Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Bitsquare to Rebrand

Aaron van Wirdum -
The decentralized bitcoin and altcoin exchange Bitsquare has decided that it must rebrand or face a costly legal battle.Launched last year, Bitsquare is the first decentralized...
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Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 Release: Graceful Recovery

Joseph Young -
The Bitcoin Core development team released Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 on January 3. As a minor release, the latest version of the Bitcoin Core software...
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Atomic Swaps: How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins

Aaron van Wirdum -
It is well-known that Bitcoin’s upcoming lightning network promises instant confirmations and low fees. What is not as well-known is that this highly anticipated...
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Top 6 Tech Stories of 2016

Aaron van Wirdum -
Of course, Bitcoin Magazine kept up with all of it. Looking back on 2016, we compiled three top 6 lists, with our best-read topics in technology, business and news. These were 2016’s six top stories in technology, by popularity.
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The Teechan Solution: Scaling Bitcoin With Trusted Hardware

Aaron van Wirdum -
Scalability has been a central issue within the Bitcoin community for well over a year now.Amongst the most promising innovations being developed are bidirectional...
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If There Is an Answer to Selfish Mining, Braiding Could Be It

Aaron van Wirdum -
Centralization of mining pools is often considered one of the biggest problems Bitcoin faces. Only a handful of pools typically control well over half...
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How Freelancers in India Use Bitcoin to Increase Their Real Wages

Kyle Torpey -
Bitcoin activity in India has been on the rise over the past few months, and a new partnership between bitcoin exchange, Unocoin, and payroll...
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Beyond Bitcoin: Circle Pivots to Next-Gen Blockchain-Enabled Social Payments

Giulio Prisco -
The Wall Street Journal posted a story on December 7, 2017 titled “Bitcoin Powerhouse Will Pull the Plug on Bitcoin.” In fact, “bitcoin bank”...
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Global Banks and Financial Operators Using Stellar to Create a Global Payment Network

Giulio Prisco -
Stellar is announcing four new partnerships with financial institutions that will enable low cost global money transfers to the Philippines, India and Europe, and...
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The Status of the ‘Hong Kong Hard Fork’: An Update

Aaron van Wirdum -
Last February, in the midst of Bitcoin’s long-lasting block size dispute, a group of Bitcoin Core developers, Bitcoin miners, and representatives from the Bitcoin industry...
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