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Markets
Banking
State-Owned French Bank Joins Bitcoin Startup's $8 Million Series A
Lightning-focused bitcoin startup ACINQ added an interesting investor to its cap table: Bpifrance, a state-owned bank that just made its first crypto investment.
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By Leigh Cuen
Oct 8, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Oct 8, 2019
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Markets
News
Bitcoin Startup Casa Updates Lightning Nodes After Shipping 2,000 in Year 1
Casa, a bitcoin custody provider, is launching a new version of its flagship device.
Casa CEO Jeremy Welch
By Anna Baydakova
Oct 8, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. UTC
Oct 8, 2019
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Startups
Bitcoin Shopping App Fold Raises $2.5 Million to Bring Lightning to Retailers
Competition among bitcoin retail apps is heating up, with the newly funded Fold App doubling down on lightning network experiments.
Macy's retail
By Leigh Cuen
Sep 25, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Sep 25, 2019
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Payments
Fold App Adds Bitcoin 'Kickbacks' for Purchases at Target, Starbucks
Mobile shoppers can earn bitcoin for purchases from Amazon, Starbucks and Target, just to name a few. 
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By Leigh Cuen
Jul 31, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. UTC
Jul 31, 2019
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Casa’s Sats app
Markets
Security
Casa Launches Lightning Node Mobile App for Bitcoin Newbies
Casa's new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node.
Casa’s Sats app
By Leigh Cuen
Jul 3, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 3, 2019
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Bitrefill
Markets
Venture capital
Bitcoin Startup Bitrefill Raises $2 Million Funding for Global Expansion
The lightning-centric bitcoin startup plans to use this funding to expand services to almost every country in the world by 2020.
Bitrefill
By Leigh Cuen
Jun 13, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Jun 13, 2019
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Markets
Lightning
From Crypto Winter to DeFi: A Year of Loss and Opportunity
The year since the last Consensus event wasn't just a crypto winter. It also included impressive progress in blockchain evolution, writes Michael Casey.
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By Michael J. Casey
May 13, 2019 at 7:15 a.m. UTC
May 13, 2019
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Markets
Technology
Don't Believe the FUD: Ethereum Can Scale
The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.
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By Hunter HillmanSteven McKieEric Olszewski
Feb 2, 2019 at 11:40 a.m. UTC
Feb 2, 2019
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Flash
Markets
Bitcoin
State of Lightning: What's the Path for Network Adoption in 2019?
The "instant payments" network running atop bitcoin saw fast user adoption levels in 2018. Will the trend continue this year?
Flash
By Christine Kim
Jan 27, 2019 at 12:45 p.m. UTC
Jan 27, 2019
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Markets
Exchanges
Bitcoin's Warrior Queen: Lightning's Elizabeth Stark Is Building an Army
CoinDesk profiles Elizabeth Stark, an entrepreneur leading a new phase for bitcoin, the world's largest and most valuable cryptocurrency.
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By Leigh Cuen
Dec 31, 2018 at 4:55 p.m. UTC
Dec 31, 2018
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