bitPico claims responsibility for DoS attack on Lightning Network
The DoS attack has been the subject of much speculation over the last two weeks, with developers worldwide taking an interest in the efforts of the previously unidentified attacker.
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Bitfury secures government nod for $35M data center in Norway
Norway’s government has signed off a request by Bitfury to build a data center in the country near the town of Mo I Rana.
Core Dev Peter Todd admits Lightning Network has issues
Lightning Network has indeed come short on many fronts, and many people are beginning to question if it really is up to the task.
Lightning Network scalabity woes
Lightning Network can have some excellent use cases, particularly for HFT (high frequency trading) - like transactions between big entities.
Lightning Network can’t scale, needs another layer
Devs propose yet another layer to save the legacy chain.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto want Side-chains for Bitcoin?
A week ago, I found someone online spouting that Satoshi encouraged side-chains and lightning network.
Scaling Bitcoin 2017 at Stanford, Day 2
Day 2 at Scaling Bitcoin 2017 Stanford, was again a day of fantastic research, aimed specifically at making best of an artificially restricted blocksize.