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Store, Send, and Receive Liquid Bitcoin (L-BTC) on Blockstream Green

July 7, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

The Liquid Network, the world’s "first production Bitcoin sidechain", is now accessible from the mobile wallet Blocksream Green. The update is supported on both iOS and Android, and allows its users to take advantage of Liquid Bitcoin in a simple and direct way, as revealed in an official blog post,...

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Blockstream Announces Liquid Atomic Swaps for Bitcoin and Crypto Assets

July 3, 2019 by Anthonia Isichei at Bitcoin

Blockstream has announced the creation of an atomic swap platform called Liquid Swap Tool according to official documentation on its website, announced in a Tweet, July 1, 2019. The Bitcoin infrastructure developer says the Liquid Swap tool enables users to carry out atomic swaps on all assets hosted on the...

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Bitcoin-Based Smart Contracts Platform Adds “Third Layer” Scaling Solution

May 22, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, Development

RIF Labs officially launched their Bitcoin scaling solution at Consensus 2019. The RIF Lumino Network is comparable to the Lightning Network in its scalability potential, but as it’s built on top of the RSK protocol, there are many differences. RIF Labs CEO Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar walked through these differences as...

Blockstream Launches the Liquid Network, Bitcoin’s First Sidechain

October 11, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at Bitcoin, Blockchain, News, Platform, Tech, wallet

Blockstream has announced the launch of the Liquid Network, the world’s first production Bitcoin sidechain. The bitcoin startup revealed that the network went live on September 27, 2018. The announcement was made by Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow. Years in the Making The Liquid Network is the culmination of...

Loom Network Launches Zombiechain, a Dedicated Sidechain for Ethereum DApps

May 30, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Blockchain, Entertainment, Ethereum, News, Tech

To reduce the load on Ethereum’s blockchain, Loom Network has introduced Zombiechain, a sidechain geared toward decentralized applications (DApps). There have been instances in the past when the popularity of a decentralized application such as CryptoKitties has managed to slow down the entire network. The number of pending transactions on...

The Lightning Network May Save Bitcoin

January 3, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Regulation

Bitcoin rose to fame as the first of its kind, the pioneering cryptocurrency that paved the way for others to come. Since then, however, the rest have more than caught up. There are currently several cryptocurrencies that are faster, cheaper and more private, and the world is responding by moving...

RSK Federation Tempts Major Bitcoin Companies

August 4, 2016 by Nigel Dollentas at News, Tech

Rootstock aims to enhance, or in a sense, “upgrade” Bitcoin by providing faster transaction times, better scalability, merge mining capabilities, as well as new features that will potentially unlock unprecedented use case scenarios for Bitcoin. Commonly referred to as RSK, Rootstock is the first open-source smart contract platform with an...