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RSK and Sidechains

Rootstock is now live on BTC and is coming to LTC. Here a brief overview of how it works. What is Rootstock? Rootstock (RSK) is an open-source platform. It uses...

Litecoin Joins Bitcoin With Main Net Lightning Network Purchases

On April 20, 2018, ecurrencyhodler bought 1 month’s worth of reddit gold and tipped Loshan1212 through Bitrefill with Litecoin on the Lightning Network. However...

Set up a Lightning Network node for LTC Today! (Mac)

LTC-Lightning-Network-lnd-Guide This is a step-by-step main net tutorial on how to setup a Lightning Network node for Litecoin on a Mac. It is specifically for ...

Why Abra is a Big Deal for Litecoin

On Thursday March 15, 2018, Abra announced that it would be using Litecoin as the primary asset class on their mobile exchange. The significance of this develop...

The New Bitcoin Debate: Proof of Work Change vs. Defensive Patents

There’s never a dull moment in the world of Bitcoin. In less than a year, it has survived two contentious scaling proposals: Bitcoin Cash and Segwit 2x. Even th...

Staging Core Releases and Litecoin Dust

On March 1, 2018, Litecoin Core v.0.15.1 was released. One revision included in this update was that the minimum relay fee was lowered to 0.00001 LTC/kB but the...

The Anticryptomillionaire

With the boom of the cryptomarkets in 2017, the prototypical Bitcoin millionaire stories that you’ve most likely heard of probably fell into 1 of 2 categories: ...

Understanding Litecon's New Default Minimum Fees

Litecoin’s New Minimum Transaction and Relay Fees Per KB. Currently, Litecoin’s minimum transaction and relay fees are set by default to 0.001 LTC/kb. However w...

The Two Emerging Ecosystems in Crypto and Their Underlying Philosophies

When Bitcoin reach its lock-in threshold for SegWit on August 8, 2017, I was convinced of two things: 1) Bitcoin’s price would soar 2) There are now two ecosyst...

Litecoin's High Transaction Fees, Unconfirmed Transactions, and Indicators of Its Growing Economic Value

Today, there have been various reports of high Litecoin transaction fees and long confirmation times. Here's a screenshot from r/litecoin today: Now there is so...

The Case for Litecoin via Atomic Swaps

Atomic Swaps is the ability to perform instant cross-chain transactions. In other words, you'll be able to trade one coin for another without an exchange. This ...

Steemit is Set to Disrupt Giant Tech Companies

https://youtu.be/eoYET6mhzQk?t=240 Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, recently went on Bloomberg and offered a surprising take on the future of blockchain tec...

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A Primer to the Lightning Network (Part 3): The Full Picture

In Part 2, we looked at how the Lightning Network (LN) would work between 2 people. In this final article, we will explore how the LN works between 3 people, ho...

A Primer to the Lightning Network (Part 2): The LN Between 2 People.

In Part 1, we talked about multisig addresses and how you can have Open Channel Payments and Closed Channel Payments. These are the building blocks of the Light...

A Primer to the Lightning Network (Part 1): Multisig Addresses as the Building Blocks of the Lightning Network

On August 8, Bitcoin reached its lock-in threshold for SegWit. This is great news because there are many exciting developments in the pipeline for Bitcoin such ...

#STEEMVESTMENT Opportunity - @Discordia (Vote Bidding Bot for small Investors incl. some Sweeteners)

"The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing." (Carrie Wilkerson) Some Vote Bidding Bots out there are getting huge total Bids in each roun...

This is a PAY IT FORWARD POST to help our friend @dianargenti here. Her father passed away & she needs funds to complete the burial AND help her family. We dropped the ball on helping her Steemit Family.

---- We dropped the ball helping her, with all the usual trending posts making $3-500 every day on here while one of our own is struggling. - This has broken my...

How I learned to stop worrying and love the FUD

Most people hate FUD. Not me. I love FUD. Why do I love FUD? Because, at the end of the day, it was the FUD that gave me bitcoin. Say what? I can hear you askin...

Steemitdev Update in Pics

Programming before: Programming now: Steemd now: Steemd Soon: The dev team is working hard on scaling issues, we get a few snags here and there, but it's nothin...