Crypto for Business

15 Mar 2018

Lighting Labs Releases Lightning Mainnet Server

Lighting Labs Releases Lightning mainnet Server lnd 0.4-beta. While focused on developers this is the first release that runs on mainnet that uses real bitcoin. https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/03/15/lnd-beta.html

21 Mar 2017

By Charles Stack

ACINQ Releases Eclair Lightning Server

HistoryACINQ, eclair

ACINQ released version 0.2-alpha of the Eclair Lightning Network server. https://medium.com/@ACINQ/eclair-0-2-alpha1-is-out-3caaff242567

28 Feb 2015

By Charles Stack

Lightning Network Whitepaper

Education, HistoryJoseph Poon, Thaddeus Dryja, Whitepaper

The original Lightning Network 2015 Whitepaper. "Creating a network of micropayment channels enables bitcoin scalability, micropayments down to the satoshi [1/100m Bitcoin], and near-instant transactions."

31 Oct 2008

By Charles Stack

Bitcoin Whitepaper

HistoryBitcoin, satoshi nakamoto, Whitepaper

The original 2009 nine-page whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto that launched Bitcoin. The most important line in the entire white paper is: "The network is robust in its unstructured simplicity. "