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.
Liquid Network, the Blockstream solution that enables private Bitcoin Core (BTC) trading, now allows its Liquid coin to be traded on several exchanges.
After a 20% jump in price, BTC is choking on thousands of unconfirmed transactions, and suffering once again from high fees.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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 can have some excellent use cases, particularly for HFT (high frequency trading) - like transactions between big entities.