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New opportunity for BOT makers and devs

25 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment DaniBom

This week the Stakenet ($XSN) Lightning dex will open for trading with an open beta rollout and the team is calling for all bot makers that want to help in testing and stressing the Dex. There will be zero trading fees for bot makers and select XSN G...

Layer 2 solutions are essential for the future of blockchain projects

21 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments DaniBom

In the last weeks we saw an incredible surge in Ethereum gas fees due to the quick success of Uniswap DEX and the defi craze that is just starting; transaction fee went up to 30$ for a fast confirmation and at the same time also the bitcoin mempool w...

Beware of crypto dusting atttacks, you might be the next victim!

20 Aug 2020 4 minute read 8 comments DeFi.

  A dusting attack is a malicious activity in the crypto-space carried out by cybercriminals to reveal the identity of a person or company. After getting hold of an individual’s identity, they can do a couple of things including blackmail, selling th...

Bitcoin lightning network - any hope for 2020?

13 Aug 2020 5 minute read 7 comments DeFi.

The bitcoin lightning network (LN) made significant developments throughout 2019, some of which include but not limited to: Development of LN-enabled mobile wallets Launching fiat to lighting channel swaps Bitfinex integrating the lightning protoco...

Wallets: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to the Lightning Network.

4 Aug 2020 4 minute read 5 comments CryptoTrips

Lightning Network is a protocol that works in a second layer on the Bitcoin blockchain, so only the strictly necessary information will be registered on the Blockchain. The goal is to significantly decongest the network to make it more efficient, whi...

Lightning Puzzle: Compete To Solve Puzzles And Earn Satoshis!

17 Jul 2020 1 minute read 10 comments Dapp.com

Lightning Puzzle is a platform where you can challenge yourself with puzzles.  There are two sections of puzzles: Competition and Free Puzzles. For Competitions To join in a competition, you need to pay Satoshis first. Every guess by any user costs...

Discovering Lightning Network

15 Jul 2020 1 minute read 7 comments yanis

Lightning Network is probably the most interesting improvement of bitcoin protocol. It supports (theorically) an infinite number of transactions per second, compared to 7 (segwit) of bitcoin layer 1 network. It also allows very low fees, about 1 sato...

Go from FIAT to Lightning in seconds. Users will be able to exchange FIAT for Bitcoin instantly without any custodian. (Tutorial)

6 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Crypto adict (Manu VZ)

The ZAP app seeks to encourage the mass adoption of Bitcoin and Lightning Network by connecting it directly to a bank account or debit card. Solving Bitcoin's scalability problem is not an easy task. This problem has taken a long time of research and...

Developers introduced a beta version of Electrum with support for the Lightning Network

27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Kluma

The operator of the bitcoin wallet Electrum has posted a beta version of release 4.0 with support for the Lightning Network (LN) protocol. The LN solution is a second-level protocol designed to scale the Bitcoin network. It provides the ability to c...

Summary On Bitcoin Second Layer Solutions

11 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments reedyzzx

There are some big issues about Bitcoin that have been addressed multiple times. The biggest issue about Bitcoin is its scalability. Yes, Bitcoin’s transaction processing capacity is very low. It was reported that BTC could only achieve 4.6 transacti...