Track Bitcoin Lightning news, payments growth, wallet support, merchant adoption, and scaling updates across the network.
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…
Roger Ver offered $1.25 million to OpenNode, a lightning network software company, to build on top of Bitcoin Cash. OpenNode declined, stating “our vision…
Efforts to improve the scalability of Bitcoin appear to be bearing fruit as the Lightning Network, a second layer off-chain scalability solution on the…
The Lightning Network is an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchain and smart contracts to enable instant payments across a network…
The capacity of the Lightning Network, a micropayment channel that is compatible with Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a layer two scaling solution deployed on…
Post-release of Bitcoin's Lightning Network, developers find innovative ways to create dApps on Bitcoin without increasing the strain of Bitcoin's transaction layer. One of the…
