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Luke Dashjr Claims SegWit Shouldn’t be Used Until the Lightning Network is Ready

Segregated Witness has been a controversial development in the world of Bitcoin scalability. While a proper solution to accommodate more transactions, adoption remains abysmal....

Is Bitcoin Cash Better Than the Lightning Network?

There are always intriguing Bitcoin discussions to be found on Reddit. Although most debates turn into a flaming war sooner or later, some topics...

A Novel Solution for Scalable Micropayment Channels Across Bitcoin’s Network

Scalability represents the main problem hindering mass adoption of bitcoin. To boost the rate and speed of transactions across bitcoin's blockchain, various networks of...

Developers are Actively Building Apps for Litecoin’s Lightning Network

Ever since Litecoin activated SegWit, people have been waiting to see what happens next. With Segregated Witness active, porting the Lightning Network to Litecoin...

MIT Will Unveil a Litecoin-oriented Project on August 1st

The Litecoin community is quite excited about a project developed by MIT. It is a bit unclear as to what this project entails exactly...

BitBank Deploys Lightning Network Faucet

It is evident more and more institutions see the benefits provided by the Lightning Network. Bitbank, a Japanese virtual currency exchange platform, has set...

Lightning Network Scalability Draws Closer As Acinq Succesfully Tests Eclair

Scalability of the bitcoin network has been a topic of substantial debate for far too long now. The Lightning Network has been tapped as...

Counterparty and Storj Unveil Payment Channel Technology

Storj and Counterparty have partnered up to create an interesting new concept. The primary focus of this project is to add support for payments...

Segwit Appoaches But It May Not Satisfy The Debate

We may see some significant enhancements to the Bitcoin code soon as the developers over at Bitcoin Core have announced Segregated witness (segwit) will...

Duplex Micropayment Channels May Help Scalability

Back in 2015 Dr Christian Decker of ETH Zurich and Professor Roger Wattenhofer gave the Bitcoin community another alternative to scaling Bitcoin called Duplex...