Lightning Network Gets a Significant Upgrade by Blockstream

Blockstream’s “c-lightning” team announced their latest update to their version of the lightning network protocol through a blog post on December 18th and there have been a lot of interesting changes. As noted by the developers, three significant changes make this update so interesting. For starters, any new lightning network nodes will be…

December 25, 20190Comments

ByZoran Spirkovski

News

Curated blockchain and cryptocurrency news – Week 50

Weekly Bitcoin Price Chart The end of the week leads straight into a small rally, which may or may not last. The reasoning behind the rally is the fact that Blockstream launched a satellite that broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain on the 17th of December, which received good media coverage and impressed a lot of people. …

December 18, 20180Comments

ByZoran Spirkovski

Altcoins

Monero Hard-Forks, Becomes First Major Coin to Implement Bulletproofs

After months of preparation, Monero (XMR) has successfully activated a hard fork, upgrading its capabilities and technologies. This move is intended to make the cryptocurrency more resistant to ASICs, and also implements bulletproofs, which will enable private transactions that are substantially more efficient, and less costly, than what has previously been available with XMRs former…

October 19, 20180Comments

ByTrevor Smith