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This is huge for BTC: Taproot upgrade approved by all BTC miners - more privacy and Smart Contracts!

15 Jun 2021 3 minute read 2 comments VNFC

Finally, this news is huge and could change completely my and your opinion about Bitcoin! I could read in some online magazines (https://ambcrypto.com/bitcoin-taproot-upgrade-finally-achieves-activation-lock-in/) and even on CNBC website (https://www...

The Impact of Lightning Network on Bitcoin Transactions

4 Jun 2021 3 minute read 5 comments Heath Muchena

The Lightning Network is a second layer payment protocol built on the bitcoin network. In other words, lightning network operates on its own but interacts with the bitcoin network to enable the transfer of bitcoins from one person to another.  It is...

Lightning Network will always be expensive. Revised edition.

15 May 2021 3 minute read 2 comments francis105d2

Because Lightning Network works precisely in a specific manner, you will discover that cheap lighting network transaction is a total lie. Still, you must do your research to learn that and think critically about the shortcomings of such vaporware. Z...

You should have figure out by now that BTC transactions will never be cheap.

15 May 2021 2 minute read 3 comments francis105d2

I was using Lightning Network and BTC to test, learn, figure things out on my own, and decide if I should move to Bitcoin Cash once and for all. I was told I don't use the first layer that is too expensive to use. Lightning Network is still in beta. ...

How Did Bitcoin's Clunky User Experience Get the Way It Is?

13 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx

Anyone who has actually used Bitcoin recently knows that the user experience for the average user isn't so great: transactions can take a long time, fees are crazy, addresses are confusing, and plenty of network disruptions can happen. But how did i...

What Is the Lightning Network and Why Does It Matter?

20 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments SwapSpace

Bitcoin transactions have never been the fastest, as they usually take somewhere between a few minutes all the way up to a day. This is because the current capacity of confirmation is just about 7 transactions per second. Meanwhile, digital payment p...

Stakenet AMA part 1 released

17 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments DaniBom

Yesterday the Stakenet team released the first part of the AMA that was launched a few days ago on the Discord channel. Members of the community were invited to make questions and the team prepared detailed answers. Many interesting topics were discu...

Guy Swann on Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Off-Chain Scaling Possibilities

11 Dec 2020 1 minute read 7 comments TheDesertLynx

Guy Swann of Bitcoin Audible and the Shitcoin Insider comes on the podcast to give the ins and outs of the Lightning Network, the prime off-chain scaling solution for Bitcoin. We go into how the network itself works, what challenges it must overcome...

Lightning Labs Launches Bitcoin Yield Feature

3 Nov 2020 1 minute read 10 comments author_nan

Lightning Network development company Lightning Labs announced on November 2 that it had launched Lightning Pool, which makes it possible to earn yield on Bitcoin (BTC) by selling liquidity access on the Lightning Network. Lightning Pool is a non-cu...

Discussion on the Bitcoin Lightning Network with Billy Garrison

6 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Keegan Francis

This is the second part of the two part episode with Billy Garrison (@Billy_BTC). The first part of the interview can be found on Publish0x, as Go Full Crypto makes a blog post for each and every one of our episodes. In this part of the interview, Bi...