Lightning Network startup Zap, Inc. is partnering with Visa to offer the most user-friendly bitcoin services since Cash App.
State-imposed quarantines and policies set to work-from-home are boosting bitcoin-based shopping.
Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.
Square Crypto is hoping to galvanize Lightning development with a new tool kit, currently under construction.
All kinds of groups are developing for lightning, the likely future of bitcoin payments. Here's a guide to notable players and projects.
Japan-based startup Nayuta has released what it says is the first lightning network wallet with a built-in bitcoin "full node."
Lightning-focused bitcoin startup ACINQ added an interesting investor to its cap table: Bpifrance, a state-owned bank that just made its first crypto investment.
Casa, a bitcoin custody provider, is launching a new version of its flagship device.
Competition among bitcoin retail apps is heating up, with the newly funded Fold App doubling down on lightning network experiments.
Mobile shoppers can earn bitcoin for purchases from Amazon, Starbucks and Target, just to name a few.
Casa's new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node.
The lightning-centric bitcoin startup plans to use this funding to expand services to almost every country in the world by 2020.
The year since the last Consensus event wasn't just a crypto winter. It also included impressive progress in blockchain evolution, writes Michael Casey.
The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.
The "instant payments" network running atop bitcoin saw fast user adoption levels in 2018. Will the trend continue this year?