"Merchants can accept bitcoin and lightning payments with the same infrastructure, except they never touch the asset," explained Zap founder Jack Mallers.
Bitcoin may finally achieve broader traction through the adult entertainment industry in 2020, but the chips aren’t stacked in its favor.
It's moving around the world much faster the second time around, already reaching 91 people.
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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."
Watchtowers, a semi-trusted payment channel sheriff, is designed to keep the peace among lightning nodes.
Iterative Capital is working with Breez on a point-of-sale app for bitcoin lightning payments. Some retailers are already testing the beta version.
Japan-based startup Nayuta has released what it says is the first lightning network wallet with a built-in bitcoin "full node."
The Stellar blockchain has been running its own version of bitcoin's Lightning Torch since the summer.
Bitcoin's lightning network might have a use case beyond faster and more scalable payments, thanks to an experimental version called Whatsat.
DEX startup Radar Relay is offering token users a way to pay lightning invoices with bitcoin, thanks to back-end market makers.
Locha Mesh is building software and hardware for connecting to bitcoin's Lightning Network – even when the power's out.
At the lightning network's inaugural conference in Berlin, the future economics of the bitcoin payment technology took center stage.
A new denial-of-service attack could slow down or completely stop bitcoin payments over the lightning network.
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.