Track Bitcoin Lightning news, payments growth, wallet support, merchant adoption, and scaling updates across the network.
Lightning Labs has announced they have raised a $10M Series A, saying that the funds will be used to further develop Lightning and scale…
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is expanding at an exponential rate despite a number of scalability and security flaws in its protocol. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network usage…
Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced support for Lightning Network deposits and withdrawals becoming the first exchange in the industry to do so.…
Despite being seen as a cure for all Bitcoin's problems, the Lightning Network is yet to see major adoption and has recorded less than…
End-to-end encrypted, onion-routed, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer chat messages have been built on top of the Lightning Network. Created by Lightning Labs engineer Joost Jager, the…
Electrum, one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, announced that its next release will support Lightning payments. The company said that it had written…
Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coin Metrics, created a matrix chart for some of the crypto-sphere's most talked…
Smartwatch users can now receive bitcoin lightning payments in seconds thanks to the new BlueWallet app. Developed by BlueWallet, the app allows users to…
The Bitcoin Lightning Network has seen strong growth, surpassing 30,000 channels and close to 7,000 nodes in 2019. The network has reached new levels…
