You may have heard people talking about layer two bitcoin technologies like the Lightning Network, and the Liquid Network before. Both of these networks add capabilities and functionality that bitcoin does not natively have on the base layer. What is the liquid network? Liquid is an implementation of Elements, an open source sidechain-capable blockchain platform, […]
While people around the world are celebrating the dawn of a new decade of 2020, bitcoin users around the world are excited to celebrate bitcoins 11th anniversary of the Genesis block. Yes, you read that correctly, bitcoin is officially 11 years old, time flies when you are having fun! At approximately 18:15:05 UTC on 3 […]
The lightning network The lightning network is an off-chain layer2 network, that aims to scale the bitcoin network to be able to handle millions to billions of transactions per second, instantly, through the power of smart contracts. Nodes can connect to each other and form the Lightning network. Connecting to another node means opening a […]
