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Xapo is partnering with Lightspark to allow its customers to send bitcoin near-instantaneously to any vendor who accepts BTC over Lightning. Gibraltar-licensed private bank Xapo Bank has partnered with Lightspark,…
Users will now be able to use the payment service to instantly support content sources using Bitcoin without registering an account. Mash, a monetization service powered by Bitcoin’s Lightning Network,…
Pick n Pay has partnered with CryptoQR in order to accept bitcoin at more than 2,000 stores. Pick n Pay, a South African retailer, has launched acceptance of bitcoin for…
Elon Musk’s Twitter is preparing to add payments functionality that could potentially include cryptocurrency, inside sources told the Financial Times. Twitter is prepping for payments, and bitcoin might be in…
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has conducted the first payment transactions on the test network of the digital lira. The monetary authority intends to proceed with…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a new report on the progress of its investigation into the possible launch of a digital euro. The research will continue next year…
A Commerceblock BLIP facilitates Lightning channels built on Bitcoin statechains, improving flexibility for the Layer 2 protocol. Last year, I wrote about Commerceblock’s Mercury Wallet, an implementation of both statechains…
Developing Lighting as a Service (LaaS) removes friction from bitcoin and gives users the experiences they crave. This is an opinion editorial by Roy Sheinfeld, the cofounder and CEO of…
Visiting El Salvador for the Adopting Bitcoin conference showed that the country’s experiment needs more time, but is worth celebrating. This is an opinion editorial by Rikki, author and co-host…
A data-driven exploration proving that Lightning scales bitcoin payments beyond Visa and that second-layer innovation is the way. This is an opinion editorial by Stanislav Kozlovski, a software engineer and…