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Big day for Bitcoin scaling. Lightning goes live on mainnet and Lightning Labs raises $2.5 million seed round from a notable group of investors. $BTC #BirthOfAnAssetClass bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/light…
Investors in the round include Jack Dorsey $SQ $TWTR, Jacqueline Reses $SQ, David Sacks $PYPL, Bill Lee (Tesla and SpaceX angel) and Vlad Tenev (Robinhood co-founder) among others.
All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, and c-lightning) are now in beta. blockstream.com/2018/06/25/c-l…
CoinGate has launched a Lightning pilot program for 100 merchants. coindesk.com/merchants-bitc…
WIRED magazine visited the third Lightning Hackday and met Christian Decker, a developer at Blockstream (requires translation from German). wired.de/article/ich-gl…
The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/progr…
Lightning Protocol Specification 1.1 will include a bit named "wumbo" (jumbo) for participants to signal a willingness to accept larger channels and larger in-channel payments. #KeepLaughing bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…
In addition to the Phase 2 expansion, we’re also excited to reveal the Blockstream Satellite API, a groundbreaking new broadcast service coming in January 2019. #KeepLaughing blockstream.com/2018/12/17/Blo…
The meddling Bitcoin kids never seem to stop coding...
The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a “toy.” bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitfu…
Square or @CashApp supporting Lightning would be a major catalyst. $SQ
Podcast: Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter & Square) & Elizabeth Stark (CEO of Lightning Labs) stephanlivera.com/episode/52
Entertaining Lightning proof of concept using Domino's Pizza. $DPZ
Lightning (Tippin) > Likes medium.com/@rusnac14/tipp…
Another senior Twitter executive experimenting with Lightning...
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