A report from the Bitcoin-only exchange River suggests increased Lightning usage will play a key role in Bitcoin becoming a better medium of exchange. Bitcoin’s layer 2 Lightning Network has seen an ...

Kevin Hurley and the team at Lightspark want to make it easier for institutions and everyday people to transfer value via bitcoin. This is why they’ve created Lightspark, a Lightning Service Provider ...

Graham Krizek, CEO of Voltage, aims to make the Lightning Network easier to use for businesses. In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core ...

Jesse Shrader thinks that this will be an important year for the Lightning Network. With Bitcoin’s price on the rise and Tether (USDT) coming to Lightning, Shrader posits that more and more businesses ...

In the early days, holding Bitcoin on your balance sheet felt like the boldest move you could make as a company. Companies locked in exposure to a scarce, appreciating asset with the conviction it’s ...

The integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network by Nubank, a major Latin American digital bank, is set to impact 100 million customers. This significant move was the focal point of a recent ...

The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bitcoin journalist and financial analyst based in London. The Lightning Network is revolutionizing bitcoin transactions by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nigerian Bitcoiner and CEO of Recursive Capital and Btrust Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning ...

The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels originally proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in 2015, with major implementations having been built by Blockstream (CLN), ...

The lightning network is the Bitcoin blockchain's second-layer protocol and a digital payment solution, providing businesses and consumers with better speed, convenience, and cost-effectiveness. This ...