blockstream News and Articles

The El Salvadorian government has struck a deal with Blockstream and iFinex (the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether) to place a $ 1 billion bitcoin bond on the Liquid Network. Half of the proceeds from the sale of bonds will be directed to the development of the infrastructure for mining the...

Cryptography and blockchain technology firm Blockstream and payments operations provider Square teamed up to create a solar-based Bitcoin mining facility. On June 5 Blockstream issued a blog post informing it received a $5 M investment from Square to provide the framework and arrange the project. ...

Infrastructure company Blockstream has announced the release of security tokens designed to make it easier for investors to mine the first cryptocurrency. Each Blockstream Mining Note (BMN) will grant the owner the right to mine bitcoin with a hash rate of 2000 TH / s at the company's facilities in...

Blockstream CEO Adam Back believes bitcoin users are better off using "bits" instead of "satoshi" when making day-to-day transactions. Satoshi is the smallest and most indivisible unit of the value of bitcoin. One bitcoin is divided into 100 million satoshi. According to Beck,...

Last week, Blockstream released c-lightning 0.9.0, the latest version of one of the popular Lightning Network protocol implementations. The release was titled "Rat poison squared on steroids" (a reference to Warren Buffett's comment on bitcoin, which he called "rat poison...

The famous Canadian astronaut and fan of blockchain technology Chris Hadfield became the owner of the first bitcoins in his life, symbolically receiving them from a space satellite located 35,000 km from Earth. The event was broadcast during the Asia Blockchain Summit 2020 held last week. The $100...

Well-known cryptocurrency supporter and co-founder of Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, Caitlin Long announced the development of a new bank focused on providing regulated services in the field of digital currencies. The Blockstream technology company, known for its developments in the field of...

Blockstream, a leading provider of bitcoin and blockchain solutions, has introduced a new version of the c-lightning solution, which took about ten months to develop. Solution c-lightning v0.8.0. by default, works on the main Bitcoin network, unless the “-network" parameter is manually set...