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Bitcoin’s 2019 in Lightning: What This Year Brought Us (Part 2)

Read Part 1 of our series, Bitcoin’s 2019 in Tech: What This Year Brought Us, here.

Even as we entered 2019 in a bear market, the receding bitcoin price was matched by a rising tide of excitement for and development on Bitcoin’s second layer payment protocol, the Lightning Network. Over the course of the year, we saw payment routing improvements, the introduction of mobile wallets, a flush of…

The EU’s Updated AML Regulations Forced Bottle Pay to Shut Down. Who’s Next?

With $2 million in funding behind it and a growing user base, Lightning Network wallet and tipping service Bottle Pay was becoming one of the hottest new Lightning service providers of 2019. Then, after less than a year of operation, it shut down.

Just as it was hitting its stride, it was struck by new financial regulations from the EU.

The 5th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive(5AMLD) is a set…

YouTube Demonetizing Your Content? Bitcoin Fixes This

What do you do when YouTube arbitrarily decides to demonetize your content and suddenly your creative work no longer appears in searches, newsfeeds or subscription boxes? Under these increasingly common circumstances, only your most loyal and hardcore fans will be able to watch your videos by specifically opening your channel page — your content will effectively be blocked from those who don’t…