Lightning Network

The service for replenishing mobile accounts Bitrefill promoting Lightning Network technology has added the ability to purchase gift cards for cryptocurrency from more than 100 Russian companies. “Now Russians will be able to shop for Bitcoin (2% discount when using Lightning), Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash and Dogecoin. Digital gift card codes are delivered instantly, as before, ”according to a company blog. In the picture below […]

Lightning Labs introduced the Lndmon tool for monitoring activity on the Lightning Network. According to developer Valentine Wallace, Lndmon provides users with visual information about various aspects of the LN network, including commissions and information about payment channels and nodes. According to him, the new tool can bring a small material benefit to users who support Lightning-nodes. Also Lndmon can be useful […]

Supporters of the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, Andrew Young, launched the independent political actions committee of the Humanity Forward Fund, realizing in particular the possibility of bitcoin donations from Lightning wallets. It is reported by CoinDesk. Technical integration of the solution was made possible through the OpenNode payment service. “The committee, of course, wants to receive donations of the maximum size. But now the opportunity to support his candidate appeared and people who […]

Hodl Hodl P2P Bitcoin P2P Exchange launches monthly “Lightning trading weeks” to speed up the mass adoption of technology in the crypto community and beyond. Lightning Trading Week has begun! ⚡️ – More than 100 offers – More than 20 different payment methods – More than 20 different currencies – Transaction commission = 0% Join the participation in […]

Tether will launch the USDT token on the Algorand blockchain. Thus, the new asset will join the Tether family of steakblocks on Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and Tron blockchains. For further development of the global digital asset space, it’s not a problem. https://t.co/fPKVqcL3JF – Tether (@Tether_to) July 17, […]

In a sign of solidarity with the developers of open source solutions, the BTCPay Server processing service popular in the Bitcoin community has supported a fundraising campaign for the user-oriented browser Tor, Bitcoin Magazine reports. As stated on the campaign page, funds raised through the #BitcoinForTor project will be used to support the free labor of people committed to protecting human rights. "Each […]

The developers of the popular Electrum wallet are preparing a major release with support for the Lightning Network. This was announced by the project's creator, Thomas Vogtlin, during a panel discussion at the BIP001 conference in Odessa. The lead developer, however, did not give the exact release date. Note that a new version of the Electrum wallet (v3.3.7) has recently been released, which contains a number of fixes and improvements. Electrum 3.3.7 was just […]

The developer of Blockstream, under the name of grubles, told in his blog that users of the Liquid Sidebar could open the Lightning Network payment channels using c-lightning implementation. This makes it possible to conduct quick and private transactions with the Liquid-BTC asset (L-BTC). In the future, the developer notes, this function, along with Confidential Transactions, will work with all the assets of the Liquid network through payment channels […]