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Voltage, a bitcoin Lightning-as-a-service (LaaS) company, has joined forces with Google Cloud to expand its operations. Voltage users can now create bitcoin and Lightning nodes in Google Cloud at various locations globally. While the bitcoin Lightning network was envisioned in…
Earlier this week, the popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum received a much-awaited update, with developers adding support for the Lightning Network. The latter allows for faster and cheaper BTC transactions, even as it remains under continuous development. Lightning on Electrum Electrum’s…
Mobile mesh networks, a network of peer-to-peer (or device-to-device) connections between mobile phones or IoT devices can be helped significantly by using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, a recent podcast noted. Tapping Lightning for SMS Speaking with CoinDesk, Adam Levine, Andreas Antonopoulos,…
Bitrefill, a California-based that facilitates crypto payments, has launched its Thor Lightning Channel, a service that allows people to transfer bitcoin speedily and receive superfast payments via Bitrefill’s node on the Lightning Network, according to the firm on January 9,…