Lightning Network

Recruit Co., a Japanese staffing firm. invested in the development of cryptocurrency Beam through the RSP Blockchain Tech Fund. This is stated in the official statement of the company. Recruit representatives were interested in the capabilities of the Beam token in the light of the potential integration of the blockchain into corporate activities. “Many tokenized settlement and exchange services leak confidential data. The Token Beam provides a blockchain capable of preventing […]

The cryptocurrency privacy-oriented development team Beam has published a plan to create a Mimblewimble-compatible Lightning Network protocol. Mimblewimble compatible Lightning Network https://t.co/2bCa4409nt #mimblewimble #SovereigntyByDesign – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) February 12, 2019 So, representatives of the project claim that transaction processing speed in the Beam network three times higher than that of […]

The head of Twitter and Square Payment service, Jack Dorsey, said that he considered it only a matter of time to integrate the Bitcoin microtransaction protocol into the Cash App, Cointelegraph reports. He said this in an interview for a podcast about Bitcoin, which is conducted by Stefan Leiver. Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, was another interviewee for the presenter. SLP52 @jack (CEO @square) & @starkness […]

Bitcoin micropay network Lightning Network continues to grow steadily. Thus, according to 1ml, over the past 30 days, the number of active nodes has grown by almost 15% and currently has 6090 already. Over the same period, the number of channels has risen to 24,680 (+ 27.4%), the network capacity has increased to 657.14 BTC or almost $ 2.4 million at the current rate of […]

Analytical company Fundstrat Global Advisors has presented a new forecast, according to which in 2019, Bitcoin is waiting for a new price increase. Ironically, its publication almost coincided with an unexpectedly sharp increase in the market on Friday, February 8th. As the leading analyst of the company Thomas Lee wrote in his recent tweet, 2018 can really be considered the year of “hangover” after historical heights […]