The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch," and it's reached 37 countries so far.
Cryptocurrency custody startup Casa has launched a browser extension for direct control of its lightning network-enabled bitcoin node.
Spongebob Squarepants term "wumbo" has been appropriated to describe one of the next milestones for bitcoin's lightning network.
The "instant payments" network running atop bitcoin saw fast user adoption levels in 2018. Will the trend continue this year?
Blockchain technology firm Bitfury has released a suite tools aimed to drive adoption of bitcoin’s lightning network.
BitGo and Genesis Global Trading are targeting Wall Street institutions with a new high-speed crypto trading service.
Now bitcoin users can send someone a lightning payment without the hassle of setting up channels.
Far from seeing the death of crypto, we may be entering its most exciting phase, argues Michael J. Casey.
Blockstream has expanded its bitcoin satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region and added support for Lightning Network transactions.
The Lightning Network is already powering a real blogging platform with bitcoin micropayments.
Casa has boosted Jameson Lopp to CTO eight months after he joined the crypto custody solutions startup as an infrastructure engineer.
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.
Devs are looking to make bitcoin's layer-two lightning network compatible with a payment standard used by all major browsers – and so far, so good.
Bitcoin Cash and SegWit in the past, it was a non-contentious year for the bitcoin developer community's annual Scaling Bitcoin conference.
A new funding round shows that lightning technology isn't just a big hit with bitcoin developers - investors are getting interested, too.