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Lightning Vulnerability Discovered; Ind Node Operators Urged to Upgrade ASAP

9.10.2020
An undisclosed vulnerability in LND versions 0.10.x and below was revealed Thursday with developers urging node operators to update to the newest version

Chainalysis and Integra Win $1.25 Million IRS Contract to Break Monero

2.10.2020
Crypto intelligence firm Chainalysis and data forensics company Integra Fec have won a combined $1.25 million contract to provide tools that break the privacy-focused coin, monero, for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Floated early September, the one-year contract specifically covers...

New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade

18.9.2020
Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms

IRS to Pay $625K to Crack Monero, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Contract

11.9.2020
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to pay a contractor $625,000 if they can crack layer-two privacy schemes and the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR). The tax agency says that the entity has “limited investigative resources” for tracing these types of cryptocurrency...

BTC locked in DeFi increased by 20X the entire Lightning Network this week

11.9.2020
Despite the recent mini price crash, DeFi users have injected more than 20,000 Bitcoin into DeFi projects in the last week, suggesting the DeFi bull run isn’t over

Lightning Network-Based Derivatives Exchange Gets Investment from Bitfinex

8.9.2020
LN Markets, the first bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange built on top of the Lightning Network (LN), today announced that it has closed its pre-seed funding round, with crypto exchange Bitfinex, bitcoin-focused investment firm Fulgur Ventures, and crypto research and asset management firm Arcane...

Bitfinex Invests in Derivatives Exchange Built With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

8.9.2020
The raise came after the new trading platform reached nearly $10 million in aggregate trading volume

Total Value on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Sets Another Record High Amid Market Rally

2.9.2020
The Layer 2 protocol holds $12.4 million worth of bitcoins

Another Bitcoin Lightning Startup Is Working With Visa to ‘Fast Track’ Card Payments

25.8.2020
With help from the Visa Fast Track program, LastBit will let users make any purchase with bitcoin, without needing the merchant to actively accept it

Ready to Wumbo: LND Enables More, Larger Bitcoin Transactions on Lightning

20.8.2020
LND now supports Lightning Network wumbo channels. These channels have the capacity to hold more funds, and users can send larger bitcoin transactions

Bitcoin DeFi May Be Unstoppable, What Does It Look Like?

17.8.2020
Bitcoin veterans are about to join the decentralized finance (DeFi) bull run, and they are taking a very different approach than Ethereum fans

Onchain Data Shows $449M Worth of Bitcoin on ETH Eclipses Offchain Competitors

17.8.2020
Onchain analytics show the number of bitcoin (BTC) held on the Ethereum blockchain has been multiplying at an extremely fast rate since the end of May. On Sunday, August 16 there’s approximately 38,021 BTC on Ethereum or roughly $449 million stored in synthetic bitcoin protocols like Wbtc...

‘Rat Poison Squared on Steroids’: What’s New in Bitcoin’s Latest Lightning Release

4.8.2020
With a sly poke at Warren Buffet's comment that Bitcoin is "rat poison squared," c-lightning developers' latest release adds some key new Lightning features

To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments

29.7.2020
Online censorship and surveillance will persist as long as local fiat currencies are the only way to pay for telecommunication services

Bitcoin Fees Skyrocket 590% Since Mid-June – Supporters Think Mempool Size Is ‘Bullish’

28.7.2020
Bitcoin fees have grown much larger in recent days spiking to a two-month high to $3.80 per network transaction. The crypto asset’s fees have jumped 590% since June 14 and the mempool (transaction backlog) has grown significantly. Digital currency markets have been extremely bullish lately...