My buddy Nico (@r0ckstardev) recently joined Zap Lightning Wallet as a full-time developer. He has been telling me they were working on something big, but was cagey with the details. Now we learn what they have been up to: Olympus, a bitcoin/fiat on- and off-ramp service over the lightning network.… Read more
Tag: Full Nodes
Bitcoin Independence Day
Yesterday, August 1st 2019, was the second anniversary of Bitcoin Independence Day, in commemoration of when Bitcoin network node operators initiated a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) to enforce SegWit activation, against the will of a consortium of large Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin business leaders, ending a years long scaling debate.… Read more