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Lightspark Extend: UMA Address on the Lightspark Wallets for Lightning Network

9 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Novasky

I love lightning payments. They are easy to accept and they have good wallets available like lifpay and others to use and spend. Lightspark is one such wallet that is in circulation for users too.  USA needs lightning and bitcoin desperately. They ar...

3 mins speed guide on how to use Lightning BTC

30 Aug 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Monolith

   What you need to know:  With BTC-LN you can send and receive transactions almost instantly (hence why is called "lightning") and with so low gas fee (the commision you pay for every transaction) that could be a fraction of a dime.  It works as a...

USDT has arrived on the Bitcoin Lightning Network

8 Aug 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Talha.Khalid

For years, Tether has been promising that its digital dollar, USDT, would be available on Bitcoin's Lightning Network. In 2019, Paolo Ardoino, who was then Tether's CTO (he is now the company's CEO), had assured that, no later than next year, USDT wo...

Pubpay : Crowdfund on Nostr using Lightning Network

2 Jul 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Novasky

Lightning network has been the blessing on the bitcoin layer 2. And you can use it to collectively earn enough bitcoin that can help battle the poverty. I may sound like exaggeration. But the Nostr social network has proven that some people can earn...

Nu Holdings (Nubank) Partners with Lightspark for Bitcoin Lightning Payments

26 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Novasky

Lightspark that has been working into the lightning network payments and the business integration of the lightning network. They have been pretty much active lately with the partnerships and the expansion into multiple regions. They are trying to get...

Could Crypto Craze Hit My Local Bakery?

15 Jun 2024 1 minute read 2 comments BreakdownFab

I might be surprised the day my local bakery starts accepting Bitcoin. It's not for tomorrow, right? It got me thinking: is crypto really going mainstream? A recent Deloitte survey seems to confirm this trend. More and more businesses are embracing c...

Building On Bitcoin Is Picking Up Momentum (and yes, AI is involved) - Breaking Down Lightning Labs Update

10 Mar 2024 1 minute read 2 comments davidgyoung

Lighting Labs published an update recently, and that link is shown here below: Lightning Labs Update 2024 Here are the main themes and concepts the BTC devs are starting to feast on:   Not crucial to get bogged down in the intense techie stuff above...

BITCOIN: Stacker News is the BEST!

31 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Herschel

Stacker news is like the best qualities of the original Twitter and Reddit, combined, without the negative aspects of them. Satoshis are used as part of the process of the software, and people can voluntarily Zap Sats to each other. It costs no Satos...

Lightning in a Bottle

27 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Jinno

    The purpose of the Lightning Network is quick settlements. Bitcoin's base layer does not have any privacy guarantees and neither does Lightning. There are ways to attempt to hide among the activity of the network, but there are no guarantees. Siz...

Why Muun isn’t a good Lightning Network wallet

28 Dec 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

Some background: I have been accumulating sats on Muun to buy gift cards from Bitrefill to alleviate some of my household expenses. I faced a problem  Whenever I thought I had saved enough sats to buy a gift card, I would be rudely slapped by screens...