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Tech

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Getting a Marketplace for Payment Channel Liquidity

Lightning Labs new service, Pool, provides a marketplace for Lightning Network businesses and users to lease payment channel liquidity.

Lightning Labs co-founder Olaoluwa Osuntokun at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin.

Tech

Putting Pressure on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Vulnerabilities Will Strengthen It

These vulnerabilities are reminders that improvements come with trade-offs – and that security and usability are two sides of the same coin.

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Tech

4 Bitcoin Lightning Network Vulnerabilities That Haven’t Been Exploited (Yet)

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has a few vulnerabilities that have been discovered in its two-year lifespan, but none have been exploited.

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Tech

Lightning Vulnerability Discovered; LND Node Operators Urged to Upgrade ASAP

An undisclosed vulnerability in LND versions 0.10.x and below was revealed Thursday. Developers are urging node operators to update to the newest version.

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Tech

New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade

Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms.

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Finance

Bitfinex Invests in Derivatives Exchange Built With Bitcoin's Lightning Network

The raise came after the new trading platform reached nearly $10 million in aggregate trading volume.

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Markets

Total Value on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Sets Another Record High Amid Market Rally

The layer 2 protocol holds $12.4 million worth of bitcoins.

Total bitcoins held on the Lightning Network stay below record highs even though the total value held has set new highs.

Tech

Another Bitcoin Lightning Startup Is Working With Visa to 'Fast Track' Card Payments

With help from the Visa Fast Track program, LastBit will let users make any purchase with bitcoin, without needing the merchant to actively accept it.

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Tech

Ready to Wumbo: LND Enables More, Larger Bitcoin Transactions on Lightning

LND now supports Lightning Network wumbo channels. These channels have the capacity to hold more funds, and users can send larger bitcoin transactions.

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Finance

Bitcoin DeFi May Be Unstoppable: What Does It Look Like?

Bitcoin veterans are about to join the decentralized finance (DeFi) bull run, and they are taking a very different approach than Ethereum fans.

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