A bar in Japan is teaming up with a locally-based lightning startup to let customers pay for sparkling wine and soft drinks using the experimental payments network. For the month of June, the Japan-based lightning startup Nayuta will be partnering…
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Lightning App for Sending Bitcoin Tips on Twitter Is Now Easier to Use
A Twitter app for tipping by way of bitcoin’s experimental lightning network is now easier to use thanks to a new update. Launched earlier this year, Tippin.me took Twitter’s crypto community by storm by making it possible to tip Twitter…
Tor Makes Launching Bitcoin Lightning Nodes Easier for Users, Casa Finds
The privacy-minded network Tor helps users to leapfrog one of the trickier aspects of setting up a bitcoin and lightning node, according to bitcoin startup Casa. Casa CTO Jameson Lopp addressed this point during a talk at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019…
Bolt Labs Raises $1.5 Million Seed Round to Boost Lightning Privacy
Academic researcher Dr. Ayo Akinyele is working on a cryptographic solution to boost privacy across second-layer blockchain solutions like the lightning network for bitcoin. Akinyele just announced the formation of Bolt Labs, named after the BOLT protocol that aims to…
Sparkswap Raises $3.5 Million From Initialized, Pantera for Lightning-Powered DEX
UPDATE (April 8, 13:40 UTC): The funding round was led by Initialized Capital, not Pantera Capital. The headline has been updated. A San Francisco-based decentralized exchange (DEX) called Sparkswap launched Monday, becoming the first North American exchange to fully integrate…
Latest Lightning Code Release Trolls With a ‘Block Size’ Increase
The latest code version for the lightning network – often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments – includes a “block size increase.” One of the most active lightning implementations, LND, pushed out its newest “minor” release, version 0.5.2, of its…
Builders on Wall Street: Bitcoin Devs Host Lightning Hack Day
It was described as “not a normal conference.” Sure, speakers took to the podium to present their futuristic ideas – a staple at the cryptocurrency space’s many, many conferences. But the Lightning Hackday, which took place in the heart of…
100 Merchants Can Now Trial Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Risk Free
A few lucky merchants now have one less obstacle to accepting bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, payment processing startup CoinGate is opening up a pilot program that will allow 100 merchants to trial a Lightning-enabled…
First Bitcoin Smart Contracts Sidechain Now Secured By 1 in 10 Miners
The first bitcoin smart contracts sidechain just reached an early milestone. To be revealed Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2018 conference, RSK, the startup that built the long-anticipated technology, touted as a way to bring ethereum-style smart contracts to the world’s…
OFAC’s Bitcoin Blacklist Could Change Crypto
Joe Ciccolo is the president of BitAML, Inc., a compliance service provider. Andrew Hinkes is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law. This article is not intended to provide, and should not be…