Tag: lightning
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The Blocksize War: Who Makes the Rules in a Decentralized Network?
Decentralization is an often underappreciated and misunderstood feature of Bitcoin. Achieving consensus without a trusted third party was the biggest technical hurdle to the invention of a peer-to-peer electronic cash. While centrally controlled monetary networks can be corrupted or shut down, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature makes it permissionless, uncensorable and immutable. However, decentralization is a design…
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Play Online Poker on the Bitcoin Lightning Network with Lightning-Poker.com
Lightning-Poker.com is an open-source web-app where users can play No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker on 12 different cash game tables using Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. Bitcoin’s permissionless nature and the Lightning Network’s very low cost enables anyone to play anonymously without any account creation. Users can deposit and withdraw money from a wallet they…
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RoboSats Guide: Private P2P Bitcoin Exchange the Lightning Way
RoboSats isn’t just about cute randomly generated avatars. It is leading the way for faster and cheaper peer-to-peer exchanges built on Bitcoin’s Lightning network. In this article we decided to take a look at RoboSats and show you how we bought some sats from a fellow robot. Built on Lightning ⚡ RoboSats is a Bitcoin…
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Adopting Bitcoin as a small business: an interview with The Suffolk Jungle Room
The Suffolk Jungle Room is an independent coffee shop in rural England that also showcases and sells house plants. The owners Sam and Tony have recently decided to start accepting Bitcoin payments and they kindly accepted to answer a few questions about their experience. In this interview they tell us why they decided to adopt…
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Michael Saylor’s outlook for 2023
After stepping down as CEO of MicroStrategy to become the Executive Chairman in 2022, a role he created to be able to operate the company’s new business strategy, Michael Saylor, an entrepreneur and vocal supporter of Bitcoin, has spoken about his plans for the company in 2023. In a recent interview with Eric Weiss hosted…
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