Lightning Hood Bitcoin (BTC) News Round-Up For The Month of January 2020
Bitcoin and Lightning Network News
1.) Payments provider Square has won a U.S. patent for a new network that enables seamless crypto-to-fiat transactions
2.) Bitcoin’s lightning torch is back, and it’s zipped through at least 38 countries already
3.) Pieter Wuille has opened a PR with the code implementation of BIP and Taproot & Tapscript
4.) Lightning Labs releases lnd v0.9-beta that includes multi-path and spontaneous keysend payments, macaroon bakery for fine-grained permissions, circular payments for liquidity management, and a SDK for mobile
5.) Square Crypto announces that they’re building the Lightning Development Kit, or LDK
6.) The Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020 was introduced with bipartisan sponsors in Congress today. It would create a sensible de minimis exemption for low value cryptocurrency transactions in day-to-day use
7.) Zap announces “Strike,” which allows users to pay Lightning invoices with their bank cards. Instead of instantly converting the cash to bitcoin for each user, Zap will hold a static dollar balance for each user and send Lightning payments for them on a transaction-by-transaction basis
1.) With Sparkswap you can autobuy Bitcoin while still keeping your private keys. Sparkswap argues that this has the potential to be one of the most interesting use cases so far of the Lightning Network — recurring DCA buys with no transaction fees and immediate self-custody
2.) Blockstream announces that Liquid Network payments are now integrated into BtcpayServer
3.) Check out Bitcoin Bounce by Thndrgames now available on iOS and Android
4.) RTL’s gets a major UX upgrade with release v0.6.0 that include persona based dashboard, channel balance score, rich channel management, day/night mode
5.) Polar is a one-click Bitcoin Lightning network for local app development and testing
6.) Pine is a new easy to use Bitcoin wallet that is now available on the Apple app store
7.) Bitstamp now has a standalone mobile app available to use on iOS or Android
8.) A demo of the upcoming Lightning Network enabled version of Electrum wallet
9.) Clark Moody is a Bitcoin dashboard containing virtually every important Bitcoin metric in one place
10.) Phoenix wallet gets updated to 1.1.0 with support for LNURL withdrawls
11.) Lightning Wizards is a new multiplayer game experiment that utilizes Bitcoin Lightning payments
12.) myNode BTC gets updated to version v0.185
1.) Payswap is a new solution that was proposed on the bitcoin-dev mailing list this week, by the Bitcoin and Lightning developer who goes by the pseudonym “ZmnSCPxj.” Payswapoffers a simple-yet-effective trick to confuse blockchain analysis by inverting the relation between payer and payee
2.) Gradually and then slowly is a new piece by Parker Lewis about how Bitcoin will obsolete all other money
3.) Taproot is a new BIP that would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so. Even the most complex smart contracts would, on the blockchain, typically be indistinguishable from regular transactions
4.) An interesting historical overview about how ended up where we are today with the current state of the internet
5.) An overview of Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model and efficient market hypothesis
6.) This article outlines a potential path for Bitcoin yield through the collection of options premiums by selling covered calls
7.) Connor Brown makes the argument for why Bitcoin is the best blockchain for smart contracts
8.) Theoretical throughput is calculated based on the total number of channels and a per channel capacity of 500 tps
9.) Colin Harper discusses Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador
10.) According of a research report from BitMEX, the largest cryptocurrency margin trading platform in the global market, the usage of the lightning network on bitcoin has surpassed expectations
11.) Marty Bent outlines why he believes Hardware is the key for the Bitcoin revolution to succeed
1.) Steve Lee joins Stephan to talk about how he got into Bitcoin, and Square Crypto’s focus on supporting Bitcoin and Lightning open source development
2.) Andreas M. Antonopoulos, world renowned bitcoin speaker & author rejoins Stephan on the show today to talk about some of his latest projects and efforts in Bitcoin
3.) Topics in this episode: Getting into Bitcoin Path getting into Bitcoin 2013 Bull Market vs 2017 Bull Market Bull Market without Ethereum? Bull Market in 2020+? Samourai Nodl Casa vs Nodl Spending on Lightning IRL? Regulatory UX Importance of Privacy Bitcoin Surviving Ban? Altcoins Left Unscathed BTCPay Server Liquid on BTCPay Exchanges Suck Lightning Wallet with Samourai Privacy Design Philosophy Privacy Improvements Closed Loop/Circular Economy Onboarding
4.) In Part 7 of the Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide, Peter talks to Dan Held Bitcoin OG and Director of Business Development at Kraken to look at Bitcoin’s monetary policy. They discuss how the economy works, the 21 million hard cap, the release schedule and block rewards
5.) Marty Bent and Matt Odell are joined by TheBlueMatt and Vallywal of Square Crypto to discuss LDK, why they decided to build it, scaling LN, Bitcoin usability, Bitcoin dev funding, Stratum V2 and more
6.) Chaincode labs announces the launch of their podcast: a technical series on Bitcoin protocol development
If there are any other major news events or items we may have missed from the week please let us know! You can reach us on twitter @lightning_hood
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Published at Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:18:59 +0000
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