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Bitcoin Pizza Day rewind: A homage to weird and wonderful BTC purchases

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 22, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin Community Bitcoin payments Bitcoin Pizza Day Bitcoin Price HODL Lightning lightning network Pizza

In recognition of Bitcoin pizza day, the first-ever real-world transaction using Bitcoin, Cointelegraph speaks with the crypto community about their historic BTC purchases.

Central bankers bellow Bitcoin on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 20, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin Community Central Bank Education El Salvador Lightning lightning network

On day three of El Salvador’s financial inclusion and funding for SMEs conference, Bitcoin has stolen the show.

The Lightning Network Lunch: A Bitcoin contactless payment story

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 18, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin payments Contactless Cards Isle of Man Lightning lightning network Micropayments NFC United Kingdom

A data analyst on the Isle of Man demonstrated how contactless payments work on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network using an NFC enabled "Bolt Card."

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Thinks Bitcoin Has No Future as a Payments Network

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 18, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin Crypto David Marcus expansion lightning network News paolo ardoido Paolo Ardoino Payments Sam Bankman-Fried SBF Scalability

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has given his take regarding the future of Bitcoin’s usage. Bankman-Fried stated he doesn’t believe that Bitcoin will work as a…

David Marcus Launches Bitcoin Payments Startup Lightspark

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 16, 2022
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David Marcus, former cryptocurrency head at Meta, is launching Lightspark, another payments company that will use crypto as its central payment tool. The startup, which will have Marcus at the…

Bitcoin network fortifies as mining difficulty records ATH of 31.251T

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 14, 2022
Post category:Hash Rate lightning network P2P Networks

BTC’s latest network difficulty all-time high makes it nearly impossible for bad actors to represent over 50% of the hash rate.

Ex-Diem Head David Marcus Launches Crypto Startup

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 12, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin Diem Facebook lightning network News Payments

David Marcus, who formerly headed Facebook and Meta’s Diem stablecoin project, is founding a new crypto company. David Marcus Unveils Lightspark Marcus wrote on Twitter today that he and a...

Making money, escaping poverty: Bitcoin and Lightning in Mozambique

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:May 10, 2022
Post category:Africa Bitcoin payments Lightning lightning network Micropayments Mobile Payments Payments South Africa

A class of 2021 Bitcoiner in Mozambique is using the Lightning Network to transact while using Bitcoin to protect his savings.

“DeFi is not decentralized at all,” says former Blockstream executive

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:April 28, 2022
Post category:Bitcoin payments Bitcoin Price El Salvador Lightning lightning network

Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer at Blockstream, is convinced that DeFi protocols can’t compete with Bitcoin as monetary networks due to their lack of decentralization.

Binance and Coinbase silent on Bitcoin Lightning: Community tries to understand why

Post author:MiamiCrypto
Post published:April 15, 2022
Post category:Binance Coinbase lightning network

The Lightning Network implementation may be against business plans of some crypto exchanges, or simply not a priority for others, several community members suggested.