Rusty Russell
The Bolt-A-Thon Sequel to Spark Lightning Innovation
The second Bolt-A-Thon will take place via livestream in December 2019. Presentations and a hackathon are expected to boost the Lightning Network.
Bolt-A-Thon, a Virtual Lightning Network Event, Invites Borderless Progress
Bolt-A-Thon, a virtual Lightning Network hackathon and conference kicks off today to help gather contributors from all over the world and propel NewsCapsule’s vital Layer 2 solution.
Greg Maxwell: Lightning Network Better Than Sidechains for Scaling NewsCapsule
Over the past year or two, the main topic of conversation in the NewsCapsule community has been how the system is going to eventually...
How the Magic of IBLTs Could Boost NewsCapsule’s Decentralization
NewsCapsule requires decentralization of miners (or mining pools) and full nodes to achieve what some consider its core property: censorship resistance. As such,...
Preliminary, Simplified Implementation of NewsCapsule Lightning Network Released
Lightning networks are considered a promising innovation in the NewsCapsule space, which would make the NewsCapsule system much more scalable and able to process...
Blockstream Starts Development on the Lightning Network
The authors of the much-discussed NewsCapsule Sidechains paper “Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains,” released in October, have formed the company Blockstream to develop...
