Bitcoin Exchange Relai Integrates Lightning Network For Its 100,000 European Users

Relai has partnered with Blockstream and Breez to allow its users to use the Lightning Network in a self-custodial manner.

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Blockstream To Expand Bitcoin Mining Capabilities with $125 Million Funding

Blockstream, a leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider, has announced a significant funding round, raising $125 million in a convertible note and secured loan financing to expand its institutional Bitcoin mining colocation services.  The round was led by Kingsway Capital, with participation from Fulgur Ventures and other investors. The funding will be used to expand mining facilities […]

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Blockstream Eyes Another Funding Round – This Time At A Lower Valuation “Below $1B”

Blockstream, a crypto infrastructure company, has set up an investment round that will raise “fresh funds at a lower valuation” than its previous one, which is about below $1 billion, as reported by Bloomberg. A source with knowledge of the situation who wanted to remain anonymous because they were talking about private information revealed the valuation amount. […]

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Blockstream raising funds for mining at 70% lower company valuation

CEO Adam Back said the fresh funding will be invested into expanding the firm’s mining capacity.

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Bitcoin in space is good for user privacy, says Adam Back

In an exclusive interview with Adam Back at Bitcoin Amsterdam, the co-founder of Blockstream shared his vision for the Bitcoin space.

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Blockstream partners with Sevenlabs and Poseidon to unveil XDEX

A Canada-based blockchain network, Blockstream, and Sevenlabs, a Bitcoin firm, have partnered with Poseidon group to launch XDEX. The development was confirmed in a press [...]

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Blockstream Partners with Sevenlabs and Poseidon Group to Launch Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange

Cryptocurrency infrastructure service providers Blockstream, Sevenlabs, and Poseidon Group have partnered to launch XDEX, a decentralized exchange for bitcoin and securities assets, in Switzerland, according to Nasdaq. (Read More)

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The Battle For Bitcoin: The Network’s First Major Civil War

Samson Mow recounts the Blocksize War between Big and Small Blockers and takes stock of the companies on the losing side of Bitcoin’s first civil war.

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Bitcoin Reserve Now Allows The Purchase Of Blockstream’s Liquid

Users of Bitcoin Reserve can now purchase Blockstream’s Liquid Bitcoin (L-BTC) which enables the use of the Liquid Network, a layer two app for Bitcoin.

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Blockstream dreams up a whole new type of multisig called ROAST

In particular, ROAST has been posited as a signature standard that could work with, and improve, threshold signature schemes such as FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures).

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Core Lightning: How Blockstream’s Implementation Rebrand Speaks To Its Long-Term Vision For Bitcoin

Now called Core Lightning, Blockstream’s Lightning Network implementation seeks to be Bitcoin’s interoperable, specification-focused standard.

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Tesla Teams Up With Block and Blockstream to Mine Bitcoin Using Solar Energy

To ensure the sustainability of the Bitcoin network, Blockstream, Block (formerly Square), and Tesla have set out to mine Bitcoin using solar energy.

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Musk Abandons Twitter Board, Tesla Builds Partnership to Make BTC Mining Eco-Friendly

Tesla's boss Elon Musk decides not to join the board, who recently become the biggest shareholder in Twitter. Meanwhile, Tesla, Blockstream, and Jack Dorsey-owned Block have teamed up to power a bitcoin mining facility with solar energy. (Read More)

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Tesla, Block and Blockstream to build a 100% solar-powered Bitcoin Mining Rig

Jack Dorsey’s Block, Digital asset infrastructure provider Blockstream, and Tesla unite together on a new venture to construct a solar- and battery-powered bitcoin mine in U.S’s second-largest state Texas. Speaking on the ambitious project, Adam Back, Blockstream co-founder, and CEO told that the mining facility is designed to be a 100% renewable energy bitcoin mining at […]

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Tesla, Block, Blockstream Link Up for Solar Bitcoin Mining

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Blockstream, Block To Leverage Tesla Equipment For Renewable Bitcoin Mining Operation

Adam Back of Blockstream announced that his bitcoin mining facility will leverage Tesla equipment and produce a 30 PH/s hash rate.

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Samson Mow’s new company JAN3 helping build Bitcoin City in El Salvador

Bitcoin entrepreneur Samson Mow has launched a new company called JAN3, reportedly raising $21M in funding at a $100M valuation.

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Building Companies That Improve Lightning Network Liquidity

More companies are developing services to make the Lightning Network more accessible for users, such as providing liquidity and operating nodes.

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Lightning platform Breez integrates Blockstream’s Greenlight node service

Blockstream, a bitcoin & crypto-financial infrastructure provider, today announced a new collaboration with Breez, a popular Lightning platform, who will integrate its on-demand node service, Greenlight. Breez will use Blockstream’s Greenlight to further build out its platform offerings, which already include a non-custodial wallet, a point-of-sale app for merchants, and a native podcast player. By […]

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Samson Mow Eyes Mexico’s BTC Adoption After Blockstream Departure

Samson Mow leaves Blockstream after 5 years of service. Now, Mow is aiming at furthering the nation-state adoption of Bitcoin. ...

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