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Bitcoin Lightning Tech Expands Beyond Invoices in Step Toward Better UX

Bitcoin’s lightning network has taken a big step toward a better user experience courtesy of new work by one of its principal open-source developers.

Widely believed to be the key to helping the cryptocurrency reach a mainstream audience by pushing it to handle millions of transactions, lightning still has a lot of work ahead of it. First and foremost, it’s not exactly safe to use…

Blockchain Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Bill to Allow Crypto for Legal…

Activist group Blockchain Advocacy Coalition (BAC) has sponsored a bill in California’s 19th State Assembly District, set to allow legal cannabis businesses in the district to pay their state taxes using cryptocurrency. The bill was proposed by Assemblymember Phil Ting on February 20, 2019.

If put into law, it would affect California’s many cannabis businesses.

Logistical Barriers: Delivering…

Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization.” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.

To say that decentralization is an important…

A Successful Binance DEX Mainnet Could See Binance Coin (BNB) Prices Double

  Binance coin up 17.1 percent in the last week

Testnet launch live, users free to test the DEX and Binance chain explorer

Transactional volumes double from Dec 2018

  BNB is back to the top 10, and with increasing volumes and DEX and explorer test net, coin holders are likely to reap big profits. So far, Binance coin is up 17.1 percent and back to the top 10.

Binance Coin (BNB) Price…

Court Grants QuadrigaCX Bankruptcy Protection

Today, February 5, 2019, a court in Nova Scotia, Canada, granted bankruptcy protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) to the embattled Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX. The court appointed Ernst & Young as monitors to help the exchange locate any funds it could use to reimburse users and ordered a 30-day stay of proceedings.

The exchange initially made…