In a historical first for the Lightning network, Synonym, a Bitcoin-powered service provider, demonstrated the first Tether (USDT) transaction in a Lightning channel. This was the first time a mainnet stablecoin was bridged to Lightning. The transaction was performed using Omni, a platform for creating custom digital assets on the

Various towns in Northern Italy are falling under pressure to rising energy costs while looking to achieve more environmentally friendly methods for producing energy. As a great example for why the call for Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining to be banned in the European Union (EU) was dropped by regulators, a small

On Wednesday, the bill titled “El Salvador Cryptocurrency Accountability Act,” was passed through committee and will soon move on to the U.S. Senate for a vote. Also referred to as “ACES,” the bill was originally introduced back in February, and it attempts to address potential risks associated with El

Each day, cryptocurrencies encroach a little further into terrain traditionally ruled by fiat. Residents of Portsmouth, New Hampshire are seeing this in no uncertain terms, now that the city has started accepting bill payments in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It was the city’s Mayor Deaglan McEachern who proposed the