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Waypoints on the Road to Lightning’s Mass Adoption

Waypoints on the Road to Lightning’s Mass Adoption

How fast does Lightning move?
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The Breez Release Candidate: Getting Lightning Ready for the Global Takeover

The Breez Release Candidate: Getting Lightning Ready for the Global...

This release is a significant improvement to the Breez product, and it’s a significant improvement to Lightning.
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Mainstreaming Lightning: 3 Practical Options for Merchants

Mainstreaming Lightning: 3 Practical Options for Merchants

Merchants are the counterparty in almost every microtransaction. Lightning needs them — lots of them. Here are 3 ways they can get started.
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MPPs & Wumbo Channels: Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network

MPPs & Wumbo Channels: Optimizing Liquidity on the Lightning Network

Liquidity is all about flow. MPPs and Wumbo channels are set to increase the flow rate of Lightning and to unlock its liquidity. Here’s…
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Lightning is the Better Way to HODL

Lightning is the Better Way to HODL

Lightning is about moving bitcoin quickly and cheaply, but HODLing is about keeping bitcoin in place. There’s no contradiction.
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As Free as the Breez: Building Lightning to Make Bitcoin Mobile

As Free as the Breez: Building Lightning to Make Bitcoin Mobile

Building a mobile client for Lightning is harder than you might think. Here’s how we’re doing it.
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Breez’s Point-of-Sale Mode: A New Tool for the Day after Tomorrow

Breez’s Point-of-Sale Mode: A New Tool for the Day after Tomorrow

When the economy recovers, bitcoin will be hotter than ever. Breez’s POS mode is the tool merchants need to hit the ground running.
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Sources of Centralization on Lightning (and why they matter)

Sources of Centralization on Lightning (and why they matter)

A couple of recent reports have questioned Lightning’s vulnerability, and both are related to its network structure. One claims that an…
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Reverse Submarine Swaps: Another Step towards a P2P Lightning Economy

Reverse Submarine Swaps: Another Step towards a P2P Lightning Economy

LSPs are the key to decentralizing Lightning. Breez now introduces reverse Submarine Swaps as the next step in minimizing trust.
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2019: A Light(ning) year of progress

2019: A Light(ning) year of progress

Breez looks back on some of Lightning’s greatest achievements from the last year and looks ahead to the promise of 2020.
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Comparing Two Revolutionary Networks: Lightning and the Internet

Comparing Two Revolutionary Networks: Lightning and the Internet

What can we learn from comparing the development of Lightning and the history of the internet? Quite a bit, actually.
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Lightning payment channels — a flavor for every palette

Lightning payment channels — a flavor for every palette

There are now three different varieties of payment channel. Let’s look at the different flavors out there and what problems they solve.
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Introducing Lightning Rod

Introducing Lightning Rod

Asynchronous Lightning Payments for an On-Demand Culture
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Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy

Envisioning LSPs in the Lightning Economy

Expanding on our previous post about LSPs, it’s time to turn to the business model and how they fit into the Lightning economy.
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Breez + MoonPay: The Easiest Way to Buy & Spend Bitcoin on Lightning

Breez + MoonPay: The Easiest Way to Buy & Spend Bitcoin on Lightning

Until now, Breez users have been able to top-up their Breez balances either by transferring bitcoins from their on-chain wallets or by…
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Introducing Lightning Service Providers

Introducing Lightning Service Providers

The Lightning economy is coming, and it will combine two fundamental components: technological innovation and actual people. The…
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Why Bitcoin Needs to Become a Medium of Exchange

Why Bitcoin Needs to Become a Medium of Exchange

Despite its awesomeness, not everyone loves bitcoin. Beyond government institutions threatening the best cryptocurrency in existence, more…
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Lightning Network Routing: Privacy and Efficiency in a Positive-Sum Game

Lightning Network Routing: Privacy and Efficiency in a Positive-Sum...

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Everybody knows that. Except it’s not true — at least not outside of a…
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Breez on iOS: A Big Step towards the Lightning Economy and a Giant Leap for Breez

Breez on iOS: A Big Step towards the Lightning Economy and a Giant ...

Breez is proud (and giddy as a schoolgirl!) to release its beta for iPhone. This is the next step towards the Lightning economy. Let me…
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Lightning = BTC ≠ IOU

Lightning = BTC ≠ IOU

Some people have fallen into the habit of referring to Lightning transactions as “IOUs”:
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Bitcoin is peer-to-peer or it is nothing

Bitcoin is peer-to-peer or it is nothing

Fiat concentrates power. Banks — central and commercial alike — set the price of fiat in the form of interest and inflation rates…
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Lightning at the End of the Tunnel: Overcoming Bitcoin’s UX Challenges

Lightning at the End of the Tunnel: Overcoming Bitcoin’s UX Challenges

The Lightning Network is laying the ground for bitcoin to take the next giant leap in its evolution. Instead of just being an asset for…
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The Only Thing Better than Minimal Trust Is None at All

The Only Thing Better than Minimal Trust Is None at All

Trust in a bitcoin wallet is a little like the side effects of a medication: ideally, there would be none at all, but if any do exist…
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Why Breez Is Committed to Bitcoin

Why Breez Is Committed to Bitcoin

Breez is going all-in on bitcoin because it’s the right thing to do
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Breez Open Beta: Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments, No Compromises

Breez Open Beta: Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments, No Compromises

TL;DR: Breez is a n00b-accessible, non-custodial bitcoin payment platform. It allows users to transfer and receive bitcoin within seconds…
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