Tech company @mifielfirma has initiated the issuance of more than $200M in digitized promissory notes on the #LiquidNetwork to facilitate debt financing between Mexican lenders and global investment banks.
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Over 2,000 promissory notes have already been issued worth an average of $23,000 for more than $43M, with potentially more worth billions over the next few years.
May 13, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
How is Bitcoin scaling?
Our new article compares two different, but complementary, layer-2 solutions for Bitcoin: the Lightning Network and the Liquid Network.
Here's a brief summary of their differences👇🧵 1/ Transaction Size
Lightning is optimised for processing micro to small-sized transactions, whereas Liquid is optimised for processing medium to large-sized transactions.
There are no limits to transaction size on Liquid (technically 21 million BTC would be the limit!).
Sep 10, 2020 • 17 tweets • 12 min read
MEGATHREAD: Building on Liquid
Liquid is a #Bitcoin sidechain built for traders & exchanges & includes new tech not available on Bitcoin.
Learn about the new tools, libraries, webinars, tutorials, projects, & tech being built for the #LiquidNetwork. 🌊 liquid.net
Nigiri is a one-click personal #Bitcoin network and #LiquidNetwork. It provides a command line interface that manages a selection of docker containers to have a ready-to-use Bitcoin and Liquid regtest environment so you can write code and test quickly. nigiri.vulpem.com
Apr 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
MEGATHREAD: Intro to the Liquid Network 🌊
Bitcoin is great but, for traders and exchanges, a bit slow.
Liquid, a Bitcoin sidechain, extends and optimizes Bitcoin for traders by enabling fast, confidential transactions.
Here's how that works and why you should use it. ⤵️
Like Bitcoin, Liquid records every transaction on a public blockchain. Liquid's blockchain is built with Elements, a sidechain project based on the Bitcoin Core codebase.
Use the Liquid block explorer to browse the sidechain's transaction history.
