Liquid and Lightning problems continue, why are they even necessary?
Liquid handles fast transactions between exchanges, while Lightning handles smaller, everyday payments for BTC.
Latest Lightning Network News
Lightning Network vulnerabilities have already been exploited
Bitcoin Core and its Lightning Network apparently have issues that could lead to the loss of cryptocurrency and warned the community to upgrade their nodes.
Lightning Network found to not be as secure as some thought
Despite having over two years of development behind it, the solution created by BTC developers to handle transactions, the Lightning Network, is still in the experimental phase.
What FinCEN’s new guidelines mean for DApps, Lightning Network and privacy coins
FinCEN has issued a new guidance addressing whether certain cryptocurrency-related businesses need to be regulated as money services businesses.
Segwit Coin BTC launches new crime token sidechain
Liquid Network, the Blockstream solution that enables private Bitcoin Core (BTC) trading, now allows its Liquid coin to be traded on several exchanges.
BTC proves it’s still not ready for mass adoption
After a 20% jump in price, BTC is choking on thousands of unconfirmed transactions, and suffering once again from high fees.
Over $1B stolen in crypto thefts, exit scams in 2018 (and Lightning Network is partially to blame)
According to CipherTrace’s report, over $950 million in crypto was stolen by hackers – 3.6 times more than what was stolen the previous year.
Andreas Brekken takes on Lightning Network, finds routing errors, wallet bugs
The much-hyped Lightning Network is “impractical” and “suffers from routing errors and wallet bugs,” according to the findings of a study done on the network.
‘Makes very little profit’: Andreas Brekken takes on ‘stressful’ Lightning Network
Andreas Brekken routed 260 payments for an estimated $0.3, in what was billed as an experiment into the efficacy of running a Lightning Network payment hub.
Jonald Fyookball: SegWit dismantles one of Bitcoin’s primary security mechanisms
As problems with the Lightning Network and the risks of Segregated Witness continue to surface, Jonald Fyookball questions Bitcoin Core development team’s “interesting contradictions.”
Lightning Network has low success rate for routing payments, gets worse for large transactions, study finds
Despite the growth of the Lightning Network, routing payments within it is unreliable and becomes even more so as the amount of transfers increase, according to a new Diar study.
Rods, abacus and payment channels: Youtuber breaks down Lightning Network—visually
A new series of videos is being produced and uploaded to YouTube, seeking to provide a better explanation of the LN. They’re being produced by Don Wonton, and his channel is called ‘Decentralized Thought.’