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Why This Dev Built a 'Centralized Ethereum' on Top of Bitcoin's Lightning Network

Ethereum showed the limits of decentralization, says the creator of an explicitly centralized version that pays contracts via Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

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Markets

Ethereum Has Become Bitcoin's Top Off-Chain Destination

The most popular way to use bitcoin off-chain is on Ethereum, recent data indicates.

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Tech

Lightning Network Overhaul Could Strengthen Bitcoin Privacy – But Many 'Ifs' Remain

Bitcoin developers are exploring Point Timelock Contracts (PTLCs) to improve the privacy of payments on the Lightning Network.

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Tech

Bitcoiners Sprint to Improve Lightning Network in 2-Day Virtual Hackathon

Unable to meet in person, developers around the world collaborated by videoconference for a 48-hour stretch to refine Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

A Raspberry Pi computer used to build Raspiblitz, a DIY guide for crafting your own lightning node. (Credit: The Coinspondent)

Markets

IOV Labs Takes on Lightning Network With New Light Client

IOV Labs, which builds platforms secured by bitcoin’s hash rate, launched Wednesday a light client for the Lumino Payments Network, its smart contract-compatible rival to the lightning network

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Videos

Fold App Helps You Earn Bitcoin and Shop Major Retailers

Leigh Cuen sits down with Fold CEO, Will Reeves to discuss their new app launching this week just in time for Black Friday.

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Tech

Zcash Alliance Aims to Bring Privacy Tech to Bitcoin, Cosmos and Ethereum

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Electric Coin Company CTO Nathan Wilcox speaks at Zcon1 in 2019. (Credit: Electric Coin Company)

Tech

Bitcoin Wallets Are Adopting This Tech to Simplify Lightning Payments

Bitcoin’s Lightning network has a long way to go in terms of user experience. To tackle this problem, a standard known as lnurl is quietly gaining ground.

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Markets

Lightning Network Messaging, Political Expediency and What Crisis Has Revealed

In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong? Juggernaut's John Cantrell and HRF's Alex Gladstein help us see what the crisis has revealed.

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Tech

Bitcoin Messenger Explores Censorship Resistance During Coronavirus Crisis

A new bitcoin privacy technology was born this week, using the Lightning Network and inspired by the politics of the COVID-19 crisis.

MASKS ON: Juggernaut, a new messaging experiment, uses the censorship-resistance of the Bitcoin network. (Credit: Shutterstock)