Lightning Network

Cryptocurrency processing service CoinGate added support for XRP. The company's blog says that now 4,500 merchants can accept payments in this digital currency. Big news for #XRPcommunity and our merchants alike! We’ve launched XRP support for our customers. Proceed to our […]

Researchers at Circle Research concluded that the past year was not a total failure. For example, the volume of investments in blockchain companies in 2018 exceeded $ 5 billion. This amount is three times more than a year earlier and is six times higher than in 2016. Cryptocurrency capitalization The volume of investments grew despite a pronounced bearish […]

Lightning Network (LN) continues to grow rapidly. Over the past 30 days, the number of channels of this second tier network has grown by almost a third, and the capacity has exceeded 600 BTC (over $ 2 million). The LN network has 22,618 payment channels interconnected by 5,791 nodes. Lightning Network is one of the most important decisions for scaling Bitcoin, reducing transaction fees and […]

According to the Bitnodes service, 10,047 Bitcoin nodes are deployed worldwide. Almost a quarter of the total number of full nodes is operating in the USA (2442). In Germany, 1837 full nodes operate (18.28% of their total number). Russia ranks ninth in this ranking, between Singapore and Japan (a total of 280 full nodes). Ukraine is on the 19th place by the number of nodes, […]

Litecoin cryptocurrency, which, by analogy with Bitcoin, is also often called “digital silver”, announced the rebranding, in which it introduced a new visual logo. Litecoin – A refined Logo and Vision “The payment choice for the world” https://t.co/XWG1Z7Qqzz – Ilir Gashi [LTC⚡] (@mrilirgashi) January 24, 2019 As the Litecoin Foundation blog, community manager Ilir Gashi writes The new logo marks a new […]