An experimental service that allows users to pay for futures data from exchanges Kraken and BitMEX via the lightning network is now live.
The Bitfury Group has partnered with business payments processor HadePay to bring lightning network-based bitcoin payments to merchants.
An experiment pushing the boundaries of crypto payments, bitcoin's Lightning Torch is suffering liquidity issues due to its success.
You’re not sure where it will end up exactly or who will actually read it. But you type up a message, pay a couple of cents in bitcoin and click the “send” button. Your message zips through space – yes, space – then is broadcast out of a satellite, blanketing the world. The result? A […]
In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind transaction, developers have successfully sent a bitcoin lightning payment over radio waves.
Bitcoin's lightning torch has made it to Iran – a milestone participants feel shows the payment network's censorship resistance.
New improvements to an existing code repository are set to make it easier for developers to build their own features into bitcoin's lightning network.
New tech by a principal developer could soon make it possible for bitcoin's lightning network to expand to new use cases.
The latest big names to join the bitcoin payments experiment are financial giant Fidelity Investments and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
A project aiming to empower people to build bitcoin lightning nodes has hit a notable milestone.
When "liking" your favorite tweet isn't enough, you can now send small bitcoin tips via the lightning network.
The $156 in bitcoin being passed via the "Lighting Torch" is a bigger deal than trillions in JPM Coins would be, writes Michael J. Casey.
Using the Lightning Network, more than 150 people bought Domino's pizza with bitcoin this week.
Lightning Network projects are booming, thanks in part to the buzz surrounding bitcoin bull Jack Dorsey.
The latest code version for the lightning network, often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments, includes a "block size increase."