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The Bitcoin Halving Could Accelerate Consumer Adoption of BTC
By spurring adoption of secondary scaling layers like Lightning, the halving could make using bitcoin less expensive and more accessible — or in a word, more like other monies...
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Lisa Neigut (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)
Lisa Neigut: Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin
The Blockstream developer has been working on what she calls “Lightning v2” since 2019, and it’s poised to launch by year’s end.
Lisa Neigut (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Bitcoin Lightning could be coming to Coinbase, CEO Armstrong said. (Coinbase)
Coinbase Looks to Add Bitcoin Lightning for Payments
The move is part of the exchange's broader plan to improve cryptocurrency-based payments globally.
Bitcoin Lightning could be coming to Coinbase, CEO Armstrong said. (Coinbase)

Binance integrates Lightning Network. (Leon Contreras/Unsplash)
Lightning Network Bitcoin Deposits Now Live on Binance
Binance joins Kraken and Bitfinex in offering lightning network deposits.
Binance integrates Lightning Network. (Leon Contreras/Unsplash)

Apple Rejects Bitcoin Wallet Zeus a Day After Threatening to Delist Damus
Apple Rejects Bitcoin Wallet Zeus a Day After Threatening to Delist Damus
Apple (AAPL) has rejected the latest version of non-custodial Lightning-enabled bitcoin wallet Zeus, according to a tweet by Zeus founder Evan Kaloudis. This comes a day after...
Apple Rejects Bitcoin Wallet Zeus a Day After Threatening to Delist Damus

The Lightning Network Rate (Liner) is pitched as a way of monitoring market demand for liquidity on the Bitcoin layer 2 network. (Jonathan Kitchen / Getty Images)
Lightning Data Analytics Firm Amboss Launches New ‘Liner’ Index for Bitcoin Yield
The company says the new index dubbed Lightning Network Rate (Liner) could be like Bitcoin’s version of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a global reference rate for...
The Lightning Network Rate (Liner) is pitched as a way of monitoring market demand for liquidity on the Bitcoin layer 2 network. (Jonathan Kitchen / Getty Images)

Burak Keceli, creator of Ark. (Burak Keceli)
Solving Lightning’s ‘Inbound Liquidity’ Problem Is Focus of New Layer 2 Bitcoin Protocol, Ark
The new protocol’s 24-year-old creator says Lightning’s inbound liquidity requirement - requiring users to commit funds to the protocol even when they're just receiving paymen...
Burak Keceli, creator of Ark. (Burak Keceli)

Michael Saylor at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
MicroStrategy’s Saylor Integrates Bitcoin Lightning Address Into Corporate Email
The Lightning Address protocol allows users to send bitcoin over the Lightning Network to a wallet identifier resembling a conventional email address.
Michael Saylor at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The 5 Key Bitcoin Building Themes, With Wolf Lightning Accelerator CEO Kelly Brewster
From Lightning infrastructure to Nostr and Ordinals, here’s what one Bitcoin startup accelerator is excited about.
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Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Service Provider to Make Lightning More Reliable
The new entity dubbed “c=” aims to improve liquidity and routing on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. The name references the speed of light in Einstein's famous equation E=MC2.
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