The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

Further to the recent launch of the company’s Pr1bit cryptocurrency solution for SMEs, Pri0r1ty Intelligence Group PLC is announcing the launch of its Lightning Network Routing Node for Bitcoin ...

Today, Boltz announced the launch of the Boltz BTCPay Plugin, the first feature of its kind, in open beta. The plugin lets merchants who use BTCPay Server easily accept bitcoin over Lightning before ...

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

Ah, the Lightning Network. Hailed for years as Bitcoin’s saving grace, the off-chain solution needed to finally make Satoshi Nakamoto’s “peer-to-peer digital cash” an actual functioning payments ...

A Bitcoin node is a computer that runs Bitcoin software to validate and relay transactions across the network. Like servers in a traditional financial system, nodes store a complete copy of the ...