Lightning Labs presented this April 2 the release of Taproot Assets v0.7.2, an update focused on improving how payments work with assets such as stablecoins on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network (LN). According to the team, the changes aim to optimize the general functioning of the Taproot Assets protocol, which is the technology that allows … Read more
The minimum price per consultation is 10 satoshis, equivalent to a fraction of a cent on the dollar. The service is designed for autonomous agents who pay alone, without human intervention. An independent developer launched LLM402.ai on March 25, a service that allows you to consult artificial intelligence (AI) models by paying exclusively with bitcoin … Read more
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with global payment networks passed a new live litmus test. This happened during the broadcast of The Daily Stack program on the social network The experiment was conducted under real-world conditions, allowing the agent to read payment addresses posted in comments. Also to generate the corresponding invoices and execute … Read more
On January 30, the USDT issuing company, Tether, said that integration would be ready soon. USDT arrives in Bitcoin through the Taproot Asset protocol, which belongs to the Taproot update. Yesterday, January 30, 2025, the Tether company communicated the integration of its stable currency, the most operated in the world, USDT, to the Bitcoin Network … Read more
Tether, the company that created and emits the popular stable cryptocurrency, announced the integration of USDT into the Bitcoin ecosystem, both in its base layer and in the Lightning Network, the micropagogue network with BTC. The announcement was made today, January 30, by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs … Read more
The country is teaching their young people to change their history with financial technology. Bitcoin designs futures, thanks to initiatives such as Cubo+. In El Salvador, history is also written with code and not only with ink. It has been happening like this since 2021, when the country declared Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender and … Read more
Electrum es una wallet de Bitcoin para PC y teléfonos que no custodia fondos y utiliza sus propios servidores para validar transacciones de la red. De esta manera, la wallet permite administrar bitcoin de manera fácil y segura, entregando todo el poder de este protocolo a sus usuarios a través de múltiples funciones de pago. … Read more
L2 is interoperable with Bitcoin and Lightning, and allows developers to create applications. Spark uses a shared signing address between the user and Spark Operators (OS). Bitcoin solutions development company Lightspark launched Spark, a new layer 2 designed to enable instant, cheap and unlimited self-custody transactions of bitcoin and stablecoins. This second layer is presented … Read more
Lightning transactions often fail due to liquidity problems. AMP splits a single payment, which is completed if all parts are successfully submitted. Atomic multiparty payments (AMP) are a technology in increasing use on the Lightning Network (LN), the second most important layer of Bitcoin. These allow a payment to be split across multiple channels, making … Read more
BOLT 12 Offerings have been officially integrated into the specification of Bitcoin’s second-layer network protocol, Lightning Network. This advancement enables a more private and user-friendly way to send and receive funds via Lightning. BOLT 12 introduces a set of improvements and new functionalities, among which the Offers stand out (or in English Offers). This technology … Read more