CardCoins recently announced a Lightning Network integration that improves the capabilities and responsiveness of the network considerably. The update provides CardCoins holders with cheaper rates and more trading opportunities as well. As such, it was welcomed by the crypto community…
This week marked another major milestone for the Lightning Network as the LNP / BP association successfully connected a node and opened a Lightning channel using a different programming language. Notably, the node was completley built using Rust. As such,…
An exercise in the art of putting things in perspective. 1. Bitcoin is not efficient In the Bitcoin electricity consumption index by the University of Cambridge, we can see the energy usage of the Bitcoin network in real-time. The Bitcoin network currently…