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OKCoin Adds Lightning Network Support
OKCoin Adds Lightning Network Support
News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 23, 2021 by Nick Chong

OKCoin announced on Friday that it will be integrating the Lightning Network to "create the best trading experience for [its] customers." The Lightning Network is Bitcoin's leading scaling solution that allows Bitcoin users to send transactions near-instantly and at negligible cost. The feature is not live

Don't Believe the Hype: Bitcoin Was Not Compromised By a Double Spend
Don't Believe the Hype: Bitcoin Was Not Compromised By a Double Spend
News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 22, 2021 by Sean Jarvis

Bitcoin nears the end of a tumultuous week as it recovers from a sudden dive below $30,000 after an inaccurate interpretation of a routine event snowballed into claims that the entire Bitcoin blockchain had been compromised. A Storm in a Teacup The focus was on a chain reorganization, or

Visa Reveals API Pilot to Help Banks Buy Bitcoin
Visa Reveals API Pilot to Help Banks Buy Bitcoin

Visa has partnered with First Boulevard, a neobank focused on the financial empowerment of the United States black community, to conduct crypto asset application programming interface (API) tests. According to a February 3rd announcement, First Boulevard will be the first bank to have access to Visa's crypto API,

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Feb 03, 2021
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Visa Reveals API Pilot to Help Banks Buy Bitcoin
Visa Reveals API Pilot to Help Banks Buy Bitcoin

Visa has partnered with First Boulevard, a neobank focused on the financial empowerment of the United States black community, to conduct crypto asset application programming interface (API) tests. According to a February 3rd announcement, First Boulevard will be the first bank to have access to Visa's crypto API,

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Feb 03, 2021
OKCoin Adds Lightning Network Support
OKCoin Adds Lightning Network Support

OKCoin announced on Friday that it will be integrating the Lightning Network to "create the best trading experience for [its] customers." The Lightning Network is Bitcoin's leading scaling solution that allows Bitcoin users to send transactions near-instantly and at negligible cost. The feature is not live

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 23, 2021
Don't Believe the Hype: Bitcoin Was Not Compromised By a Double Spend
Don't Believe the Hype: Bitcoin Was Not Compromised By a Double Spend

Bitcoin nears the end of a tumultuous week as it recovers from a sudden dive below $30,000 after an inaccurate interpretation of a routine event snowballed into claims that the entire Bitcoin blockchain had been compromised. A Storm in a Teacup The focus was on a chain reorganization, or

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 22, 2021
Bitcoin Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record
Bitcoin Mempool Stays Cool as Payment Numbers Pass 2017 Record

Bitcoin transactions may be taking longer to clear and cost more than usual for some, but that may be because the network is handling more than it has in a long time. According to data from monitoring resource transactionfee.info, this month has seen Bitcoin process a record number of

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 20, 2021
Bitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support
Bitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support

United Kingdom-based Bitcoin exchange CoinCorner has become the latest major trading platform to support the Lightning Network. Traders can now use Lightning via CoinCorner’s website, with a mobile implementation in the works. CoinCorner Seamlessly Launches Lightning Support Lightning, which allows Bitcoin users to send transactions near-instantly and at negligible

News  -  Business  -  Jan 08, 2021
Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan
Why More Bitcoin Miners Now Choose Kazakhstan

China's Bitcoin miners may be eyeing Sweden and the Nordic countries as a new home, but they may be crucially ignoring another place much closer to home. In a report released last month, Bitcoin mining and media firm HASHR8 identified Kazakhstan as a low-key newcomer in Bitcoin'

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jan 02, 2021
The Lightning Network's 2020
The Lightning Network's 2020

Bitcoin has kicked off the year with strength, sitting at $29,400 on the first day of 2021, over 300 percent higher than on the same day in 2020. The past year has been one of accelerated recognition for Bitcoin as it has been increasingly talked about for its capabilities

News  -  Technology  -  Jan 02, 2021
Channel Jamming Attacks on the Lightning Network: A Deep-Dive
Channel Jamming Attacks on the Lightning Network: A Deep-Dive

In May this year, Bitcoin Core contributors Gleb Naumenko and Antoine Riard proposed the use of Fidelity Bonds for LN Routing to prevent channel jamming, a type of denial-of-service (DOS) attack that can occur on the Lightning Network. Channel jamming, first described in 2015 by Rusty Russell, usually describes a

interview  -  Technology  -  Dec 14, 2020
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