“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”— Isaac Newton, 1675 On December 6, 2017, Lightning Developers, a medium.com publisher representing the three main parties (ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs) that together are building the Lightning Network protocol, announced that Lightning Protocol 1.0 is operational. All tests were passed, […]
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First successful Bitcoin-Litecoin cross-chain transaction completed
On November 16, 2017, Lightning Labs completed the first BTC-LTC, cross-chain, atomic swap over the Bitcoin and Litecoin testnets. Amazing, right? But wait, what exactly is an atomic swap?
IBM, SecureKey Technologies upload Canadian citizen identities to the blockchain
IBM and SecureKey Technologies, a Toronto-based startup founded 2008, with approximately 100 employees, and offices in Boston and San Francisco, have partnered with the Canadian Federal Government and the majority of Canadian banks in a bold initiative to solve the ubiquitous problem of personal identity security and authentication. Collectively, they are building and implementing a […]