The payments feature will facilitate in-store or online purchases at blue chip retailers including Starbucks, Whole Foods, AMC, Home Depot, and Southwest Airlines.
The popular wallet service Electrum is soon to add official support for bitcoin's lightning network, its founder has told CoinDesk.
The new mainstream-friendly mobile wallet from Lightning Labs saw 2,000 downloads on Day 1. Next up for the company: merchant services.
Now in beta for the iPhone, Breez's app harnesses lighting, Neutrino and atomic swaps to make bitcoin P2P payments feasible for daily transactions.
The first protocol for issuing tokens via bitcoin’s lightning network is aimed to rival ethereum's ERC-20. But that's a tall order.
The lightning-centric bitcoin startup plans to use this funding to expand services to almost every country in the world by 2020.
New research from mobile mesh networking company goTenna explores how bitcoin's lightning network can help decentralize mobile communications.
So-called lightning network "watchtowers" – a much-anticipated next step for securing the network – are coming soon.
A new hardware partnership is helping the team behind Samourai Wallet extend their obsession with privacy to the world of bitcoin nodes.
Co-author of the lightning network white paper Tadge Dryja has released new code for a proposed scaling solution he's been working on for a year.
A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay using the experimental payments network.
An app that lets you send lightning tips via Twitter just got a 1.0 software release with a set of new features.
A routing proposal is expected to be merged today into the official "specifications" of the lightning network, paving the way for new features.
Casa CTO Jameson Lopp explained how Tor leapfrogs some of the thorny networking hurdles that come with setting up a node.
A new app for the Apple Watch has been launched by bitcoin startup Bluewallet, which connects users to the nascent lightning network.