Bitcoin users have a new tool that allows them to instantly purchase cryptocurrency on the Lightning Network using bank cards. A solution called Olympus was introduced by Zap Wallet developer Jack Mullers. According to him, the new tool is designed to bypass complex KYC procedures requiring services like BitPay and Coinbase. I just published Announcing Olympus: Lightning-enabled fiat ramps by […]
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The P2P exchange for the sale and purchase of Bitcoin Hodl Hodl will open the source code. This will allow everyone to create their own P2P trading platform. This was stated by CTO Roman Snitko during the Baltic Honeybadger conference. Reasons for the decision: projects are closed and the code is lost; Developing an exchange from scratch is a very expensive task; everyone has the right to manage the exchange; Hodl code Hodl tested on […]
Olaoluva Osuntokun, Technical Director of Lightning Labs and ACINQ, confirmed the cases of practical exploitation of the vulnerability in the Lightning Network protocol, the existence of which became known at the end of August. In a message on the Linux Foundation portal, Osuntokun noted that cases of exploitation of the vulnerability in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database were indeed recorded, and again reminded of the need to update clients to […]
Despite the unconvincing dynamics of the BTC price, the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency once again updated the historical maximum. If a little more than a week ago, the total computing network of Bitcoin was at around 83.526 EH / s, by now this figure is already 94.779 EH / s. As it usually happens, the mining complexity has grown along with the hashrate: Well-known Twitter user Hodlonaut noted that […]
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Two years after the activation of Segregated Witness, the share of bitcoin transactions using this protocol reached 61.93%. Segregated Witness (SegWit) was activated on August 24, 2017. The protocol eliminated a number of problems that stood in the way of Bitcoin, opening up opportunities for network scaling, including through the Lightning Network. In particular, with the introduction of SegWit, the method of storing data in […]
Charlie Lee, creator of the Litecoin cryptocurrency, said he had invested in the American company Casa. The latter is known as a developer of a multi-signature scheme, which requires signing tools on three hardware devices, a Keymaster key manager, as well as a hardware bitcoin node with support for the Lightning Network. According to Charlie Lee, what Casa does is very important for the entire cryptocurrency industry, and today […]
The Binance Jersey cryptocurrency account on Twitter was hacked by an unknown hacker who claimed to control the binance.je domain. At the same time, he emphasized that he was a researcher and did not intend to create a large-scale phishing scheme from which millions could suffer. “I decided not to do this, although I really need money. I hope the community will appreciate it. ” He also asked Changpeng Zhao personally […]
Ethereum founder Vitaly Buterin believes that the future of cryptocurrencies is in their “diversity and pluralism”, thus making it clear that he supports the Blockade Games developer’s proposal to merge the second bitcoin layer of the Lightning Network with the Ethereum blockchain. Earlier this week, the team Blockade Games, which is working on the game Neon District, described in its blog the process of implementing the Lightning Network […]