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Tech

'Rat Poison Squared on Steroids': What's New in Bitcoin's Latest Lightning Release

With a sly poke at Warren Buffet's comment that Bitcoin is "rat poison squared," c-lightning developers' latest release adds some key new Lightning features.

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Finance

Charlie Lee, Adam Back Lead $3.1M Private Token Raise for Blockchain Game Infinite Fleet

A game developed by Samson Mow's Pixelmatic has completed a $3.1 million private SAFT sale of tokens.

Infinite Fleet artwork

Tech

Blockstream's Liquid Network Sent $8M in BTC Unsafely, Says Bitcoin Developer

Bitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night.

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Tech

Appealing to Normies: Advancing Bitcoin Starts With Better UX

At London's Advancing Bitcoin conference, developers discussed user-experience fixes for the world's leading crypto.

Blockstream's UX director, Selene Jin, speaks at 2020's  Advancing Bitcoin conference in London. (Photo by Alyssa Hertig for CoinDesk)

Finance

In First 'Pure Crypto' Hire, Silvergate Bank Recruits Blockstream Liquid Network Exec

Benjamin Richman, formerly director of business development and partnerships at Blockstream, will help the crypto-friendly bank pursue its ambitious goals for serving the crypto industry.

Silvergate bank

Tech

Blockstream Co-Founder Joins Bitcoin-Only Startup Rupiver Financial

Jonathan Wilkins, a co-founder of Blockstream, is joining up-and-coming bitcoin brokerage River Financial as Chief Security Officer.

GOT YOUR BACK: River Financial focuses on "what is best for users in the long term instead of pushing altcoins and encouraging more active trading in order to increase fees," says new CSO Jonathan Wilkins. Image courtesy of River Financial

Markets

BTCPay Server Now Processing Blockstream's Liquid Assets

BTCPay Server now accepts assets issued on Blocksteam's sidechain, Liquid.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Crypto Trading Privacy Gets a Boost as $15M of Tether Moves to Liquid Sidechain

Innocuous at first glance, the transfer of $15 million worth of USDT from ethereum to Liquid has big implications for the tether market and digital asset trading more broadly.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back

Tech

'Multi-Part' Payments Could Bring Bigger Bitcoin Sums to Lightning Network

With its latest "major release," bitcoin tech startup Blockstream said its c-lightning software team is the first to release a working version of "multi-part payments."

Blockstream's Christian Decker at Construct 2019, image via CoinDesk archives