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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bitcoin journalist and financial analyst based in London. The Lightning Network is revolutionizing bitcoin transactions by ...

Lnfi Network, a DeFi platform on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has integrated the RGB Protocol, enabling scalable, programmable assets on Bitcoin. Announced alongside RGB’s mainnet launch, this allows ...

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 ...

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 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), ...

A report from the Bitcoin-only exchange River suggests increased Lightning usage will play a key role in Bitcoin becoming a better medium of exchange. Bitcoin’s layer 2 Lightning Network has seen an ...

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 ...

Jesse Shrader thinks that this will be an important year for the Lightning Network. With Bitcoin’s price on the rise and Tether (USDT) coming to Lightning, Shrader posits that more and more businesses ...