It’s an exciting time in technology with breakthroughs seemingly coming every day in areas like AI and blockchain. One such revolution making waves is the Lightning Network which is increasingly ...

The lightning network is the Bitcoin blockchain's second-layer protocol and a digital payment solution, providing businesses and consumers with better speed, convenience, and cost-effectiveness. This ...

BitGo will now offer Bitcoin Lightning Network access directly from its qualified custody platform. The move makes it one of the first companies to provide Lightning payments for institutional custody ...

One of the secondary benefits of how the Lightning Network works as a scaling solution is privacy. It’s by no means perfect or undefeatable privacy, but it is a better than naive use of the base layer ...

Bitcoin’s next major leap isn’t another new blockchain, it’s speed, scale, and usability on the original one. That’s the view of Aaron Bollinger, co-founder of Voltage, a U.S.-based Bitcoin ...

Graham Krizek, founder and CEO of Voltage, predicts the Lightning Network will capture billions in global stablecoin volume within the next few years. Bitcoin’s layer-2 scaling platform, Lightning ...

The integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network by Nubank, a major Latin American digital bank, is set to impact 100 million customers. This significant move was the focal point of a recent ...

Geyser, a crowdfunding platform that uses Bitcoin's Lightning Network for donations, launched in 2022 and, in only two years, has amassed over 50,000 contributors, 1,000 projects, and facilitated 30 ...

Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions. Bitcoin layer-2, the Lightning Network, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nigerian Bitcoiner and CEO of Recursive Capital and Btrust Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning ...

The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels originally proposed by Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon in 2015, with major implementations having been built by Blockstream (CLN), ...

Depositing bitcoin via Lightning is faster and cheaper than on the main blockchain; the base fee on lightning is $0.04, whereas regular bitcoin deposits spiked to as high as $30 in May, according to ...