What Drives Lightning Node Profitability?
If your Lightning experience is anything like mine, you said damn the YouTube videos and reading Reddit posts, let’s spin up this Lightning node, fund it with some Bitcoin and make some bad decisions. I purchased some Bitcoin from an exchange, funded my newly created Lightning wallet, went looking for peers I found on sites […]
What Is Zapple Pay?
Nostr has seen tremendous growth in the last year; the new social media protocol promises to be more private and secure than its competitors and offer up censorship-resistant communication on every level of the stack. As the number of users grew, relays and clients needed to improve their efforts as interaction became sluggish. One of […]
Why Do Crypto Exchanges Fail?
Imagine waking up one morning and finding that your hard-earned Bitcoin has vanished into thin air. While you might be able to trace it on-chain, signs of recovery are slim to one, and the reality of facing a gut-wrenching loss sets in. This is the harsh reality faced by countless individuals who have fallen victim […]
What Is A Statechain CoinJoin?
Bitcoin is an open monetary network that anyone can use as long as they have the software to communicate with the network. Your method of interacting with the network can be as simple as using a software wallet and broadcasting via a third-party node, or you can talk to the network directly via your own […]
What Is JIT Routing?
The Lightning Network is a second-layer protocol that sits on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. It allows for fast, cheap, and scalable payments between peers that have chosen to connect with one another by securing Bitcoin in a 2 of 2 multi-sig transactions. When a user broadcasts a Lightning channel open, they decide how much […]
Bitcoin App: Mash
Having a website or a content platform isn’t just about sharing your thoughts and ideas or showcasing your products like it once was during the earlier days of the internet. The novelty of having a website or blog has faded, and more people are starting websites with the goal of transforming them into a revenue […]
How Lightning API Call Payments Can Change Digital Advertising
These days, digital marketers use complex MarTech tools built on powerful technology to access and leverage rich data sets to reach a wider audience and create more effective marketing campaigns. The emergence of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has made it easier for them to track users and build data sets. APIs are the driving force […]
Bitcoin Reduces Needless Consumption For Small Businesses
Running a small business is hard work; sometimes, it can feel like the sucker’s choice; why would you take on all this risk, do all this unpaid or extra work in the hope that there is a potentially bigger payoff sometime in the future. When you become an entrepreneur, you take your time, capital and […]
High-Interest Rates Could Spur On A New DCA Army
Rampant inflation has taken hold worldwide; it’s no longer an economic affliction relegated to the banana republics of the global South but has seriously begun to pinch the consumer in the biggest markets in the world. In response, central banks around the world have had to raise interest rates and follow the Federal reserves hawkish […]
What Is A Bitcoin Darkpool?
In an era where data is the new gold or oil, and big tech is thirsting over every piece of metadata they can pry from your fingers, privacy is a fast-eroding commodity. While many are not too concerned with the privacy of their social media posts, search engine queries, emails or cloud-stored documents and files. […]