The Lightning network is dying
Over time, the small blockers' narrative about the Lightning Network being a solution to scaling Bitcoin is proving to be untrue, as seen in the shutdown of custodial wallets using it.
Over time, the small blockers' narrative about the Lightning Network being a solution to scaling Bitcoin is proving to be untrue, as seen in the shutdown of custodial wallets using it.
The changes in Bitcoin's original protocol, deemed "improvements" in the BTC community, were not significant upgrades but a mere diversion of what the technology advocates for.
On the latest CoinGeek Discussions, hosts Zach Weiner and Alex Vidal tackle the biggest news in the blockchain space, the latest developments, and what guests envision to be blockchain's impact in the future.
In this article, Marquez Comelab outlined why the BSV blockchain is the true Bitcoin while he explored the significant protocol change known as SegWit, which BTC developers implemented.
Today, we remember the network wars and the struggles, and we celebrate the fact that amid it all, we are still here—celebrating Bitcoin's liberation from the control of the BTC Core cabal.
“Free” mint is a concept in the digital currency space where users of various blockchains mint an NFT for only the mining costs of the transaction, but the creator earns no profit from this action.
It is a cruel irony that Ethereum and other blockchains had come to rely on large cloud computing firms like AWS when the original Bitcoin was designed to challenge them.
Binance’s layoffs could top 3,000 by year’s end, according to an exchange staff who claimed that the U.S. Department of Justice probe would likely end in a consent decree or settlement.
Vitalik Buterin said in a Twitter Space with Eric Wall and Udi Wertheimer that BTC has effectively merged its technical and cultural systems, resulting in “really weird politics holding it back."
Almost six years later, despite these clear technical advantages of Bitcoin and blockchain, we still have not seen any meaningful adoption by legacy companies that generate significant revenue.
Advancements in technology have led to the improvement of IP-to-IP transactions, and one of the contributing factors is IPv6 and Bitcoin, which enable people to develop newer forms of transactions.
In this discussion moderated by Kurt Wuckert Jr. at the London Blockchain Conference, industry experts zoom in on blockchain's ability to scale, the differences between L1 and L2, and the utility a truly scalable blockchain could offer.