To protect against routing attacks on the Lightning Network, utilize watchtowers, verify channel state changes, and prioritize well-established payment channels. Payment channels on the Lightning ...

Kevin Hurley and the team at Lightspark want to make it easier for institutions and everyday people to transfer value via bitcoin. This is why they’ve created Lightspark, a Lightning Service Provider ...

The world of financial assets and alternative currencies has officially arrived to Bitcoin. If it wasn’t clear already following the slew of new protocols birthed by the Ordinals’ movement, the ...

One of the biggest inherent limitations to the Lightning Network is the limited number of channels that can be opened or closed per block given the blocksize limit. Regardless of how many transactions ...

In the early days, holding Bitcoin on your balance sheet felt like the boldest move you could make as a company. Companies locked in exposure to a scarce, appreciating asset with the conviction it’s ...

Graham Krizek, CEO of Voltage, aims to make the Lightning Network easier to use for businesses. In 2012, soon after Graham Krizek discovered Bitcoin and subsequently began contributing to Bitcoin Core ...

LQWD CEO Shone Anstey explained how Lightning will transform transactional banking as Bitcoin becomes the internet's layer of trust. LQWD Technologies Corp. (LQWD) will introduce the world to one of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tomer Niv is a Tel Aviv-based investor focused on crypto and Web3. Recent developments within the bitcoin ecosystem, including ...

Bitcoin’s layer 2 Lightning Network has seen an estimated 1,212% growth in two years, with around 6.6 million routed transactions in August, a significant jump compared with August 2021’s 503,000 ...