Lightning Network


Finance

Lightning Startup Zap Raised $3.5M for Bitcoin App Ahead of Visa Deal

The Lightning startup Zap Inc. just raised its first round to build out both mobile bitcoin wallet services and a Visa partnership in 2020.

Zap founder Jack Mallers speaks at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk archives)

Tech

CoinSwap and the Ongoing Effort to Make Bitcoin Privacy 'Invisible'

Developer Chris Belcher has set his sights on making CoinSwap a reality – a new project he hopes will "massively improve bitcoin privacy."

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Markets

Listen: What a Bitcoin Researcher Says About Lightning

Chaincode Labs researcher Clara Shikhelman has been studying mathematics in university since she was 14 years old. Now, as the bitcoin company’s newest post-doctoral fellow, she is exploring ways to optimize the Lightning Network.

(Clara Shikhelman)

Finance

Bitcoin App Bottlepay Is Back From the Dead With a New Lightning App

Bottlepay remodeled its whole product to comply with EU regulations. Roughly 1,000 people are now on the waitlist for the app's relaunch.

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Tech

Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine Swaps

In its latest major release, Electrum now supports a number of innovations that could make using Lightning more secure and less bumpy for users.

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Tech

WikiLeaks Shop Now Accepts Bitcoin Lightning Payments

In 2011, WikiLeaks was among the first organizations to accept donations in bitcoin. Now its shop is taking bitcoin payments over Lightning.

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Tech

Bitcoin's Lightning Network Is Vulnerable to 'Looting': New Research Explains

Computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have examined the Lightning Network's "flood and loot" attack that preys on Bitcoin network congestion.

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Tech

Cryptography Startup Brings Private Payment Channels to Tezos Blockchain

Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos.

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Tech

One Man's Mission to Deploy Solar-Powered Bitcoin Nodes Across Africa

A Nigerian entrepreneur has released a $500 kit for building solar-powered Lightning nodes in hopes of expanding bitcoin adoption across Africa.

DIY: The Spacebox includes all the hardware needed to build a Lightning node. (Chimezie Chuta)

Markets

Bootstrapping Mobile Mesh Networks With Bitcoin Lightning

Richard Myers says the future of ad-hoc mesh networks for SMS messages and bitcoin transactions on your smartphone is here, but it needs the Lightning Network to succeed.

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