by Guy | Nov 5, 2020 | Lightning
“Lightning Labs is positioning this release as a step toward an ecosystem of Lightning-based financial products, which it called “LiFi.” – Peter Chawaga A new ecosystem has just begun. With Bitcoin native financial markets, Lightning Labs has released the...
by Guy | Sep 22, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“DLCs are uniquely positioned to bring smart contracting to Bitcoin using oracle contracts that are much more private and scalable than previously thought possible.” – Ben Carman Ben Carmen, a developer with the awesome team at SuredBits, drops a...
by Guy | Aug 11, 2020 | Lightning, Security
“The Jevons paradox is a staple of environmental economics used to describe how the introduction of more efficient technologies tends to increase the consumption of resources rather than decrease it.” – Alex B. Will Lightning steal fees from Bitcoin...
by Guy | Jul 27, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“Privacy is at the root of Lightning which is a requirement for a retail payment network to succeed. It builds on Bitcoin which does not optimize for privacy⁵ but transparency and robustness.” – Nicolas Burtey & Chris Hunter As excellent piece...
by Guy | Jun 30, 2020 | Lightning, Technology
“#Bitcoin as protocol has huge potential: it’s like the TCP layer, but no one has built the HTTP layer yet.” – Elizabeth Stark Today we read an article from earlier this year on the massive advances we have seen in Lightning since its...
by Guy | Jun 15, 2020 | Development, Lightning
“It’s going to be really interesting to replicate some of the token-based authentication schemes that we already have with centralized providers but do it with self-sovereign identity, which is pseudonymous and which is persistent across the network.” – Chris...