
Twitter Tips on Lightning Network fizzles out after 1 year due to low demand
Twitter announced it would discontinue its tipping feature, which lacked both awareness and demand, with a worldwide total of just US$8,500 in payments.
Twitter announced it would discontinue its tipping feature, which lacked both awareness and demand, with a worldwide total of just US$8,500 in payments.
Block's gross profits rose 38% to $1.57 billion, but expenses rose by nearly one-half, resulting in a net loss of $18.7 million, significantly worse than the $3 million loss in Q3 2021.
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Layer 2 solutions are not useless in principle, and Rollups themselves can be useful, when used with a blockchain capable of serving as a scalable global base layer.
A paper by researchers at the University of Illinois revealed two major attack vulnerabilities in the Lightning Network system, which could be used to lock users from their money or steal funds.
To celebrate his 2,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, Joshua Henslee did a three-part "Ask Me Anything" episode where he answered questions about Bitcoin, digital currencies, and blockchain.
Kurt joined Darntons podcast to talk about Satoshi’s vision and how BSV has restored it, the fallacies of BTC and Lightning Network, and why Dr. Craig Wright is Satoshi.