Bitcoin Pizza Day is coming, how does Latin America celebrate it?

Since the value of money is nothing more than a social agreement, financial history remembers the year 2010 as the moment when a couple of pizzas set the first price of bitcoin (BTC). That day, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two family pizzas, establishing the first documented commercial transaction with the pioneering digital … Read more

An AI agent bought an Amazon card in 60 seconds using bitcoin

The flow used four Bitrefill MCP server tools in sequence without human intervention The report is from the CEO of the operating company; there is no independent verification at this time Freddie New, CEO of B HODL Plc, a company that offers B2B advisory services on bitcoin, published a transaction report on his The entire … Read more

Bitcoin conquers self-service windows in restaurants with payments via Lightning

The race for efficiency at quick service windows is adding a new engine to its ecosystem. This, after, starting this May, the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning network is integrated into the operational flow of food establishments in the United States with the ambition that the payment is confirmed before the order reaches the customer’s hands. This … Read more

What advantages and solutions do you contribute?

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 officially launches USDT on the Bitcoin Network

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

How El Salvador and Bitcoin attract young people from all over the world?

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

¿Qué es la wallet Electrum de Bitcoin?

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

They launch new layer 2 to “spend bitcoin off-chain”

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

This is how they solve failed transactions in Bitcoin Lightning

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

Private, Reusable Addresses Now Standard on Bitcoin Lightning Network

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