Bitcoin was born from the 2008 financial crisis as a decentralized answer to broken money, launching with Satoshi’s 2008 whitepaper and a fixed 21 million supply. From pizza payments to digital gold, it’s now a global monetary force with real tradeoffs.
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BitGo is opening the Lightning Network to institutional Bitcoin holders with a new product that lets treasuries earn BTC-denominated routing fees without giving up custody, governance, or compliance controls. Lightning Earn lets institutions allocate BTC to Lightning routing channels Fees are paid in Bitcoin, not tokens, staking rewards, or synthetic yield Amboss Technologies’ Rails manages […]
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Can you actually earn meaningful yield on Lightning, or is it mostly a nice idea wrapped around Bitcoin’s hardest payment problem? Chris Ritter and Stephan Livera tackle the Lightning Network economics question head-on, looking at routing nodes, liquidity, centralization, security, and whether Bitcoin payments can ever become more than a niche game for the technically […]
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Amboss is making a straightforward bet: if the Lightning Network is going to power real Bitcoin payments at scale, somebody has to build the boring-but-essential infrastructure first. Episode 737 of the BlockHash Podcast, featuring Jesse Shrader, CEO and co-founder of Amboss, zeroes in on that work — enterprise adoption, node operations, liquidity, privacy, and why […]
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Square has turned on Bitcoin payments for roughly one million U.S. merchants, and while that won’t send every latte into sats overnight, it’s still a serious step for Bitcoin payments in the real economy. Roughly 1 million U.S. sellers can now accept Bitcoin through Square Payments use the Lightning Network for faster, cheaper settlement Merchants […]
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GoMining is betting that Bitcoin payments can be made fast, cheap, and actually usable at checkout with GoBTC Pay, a new payment protocol that pushes native Bitcoin payments on the base layer rather than leaning on the usual second-layer workarounds. GoBTC Pay targets instant Bitcoin checkout on the base layer Users pay nothing; merchants pay […]
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Cake Wallet is taking another swing at Bitcoin usability with a new Lightning Network integration that aims to make fast payments easier without dumping users into the usual swamp of channel setup, liquidity headaches, and custody risk. That was the big takeaway from Episode 716 of the BlockHash Podcast, where Seth, COO of Cake Wallet, […]
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Square Unleashes Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments for U.S. Merchants: A Game-Changer? Square, the payment processing heavyweight under Block, Inc., has ignited a potential revolution in U.S. commerce by enabling Bitcoin payments for millions of small businesses as of this week. By harnessing the Bitcoin Lightning Network, this rollout could redefine how Bitcoin is perceived—not just […]
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Steak ‘n Shake Bitcoin Payments Fuel 15% Sales Surge: A Crypto Success with Caveats Fast-food heavyweight Steak ‘n Shake has taken a daring plunge into the world of cryptocurrency, and the payoff is hard to ignore. Since rolling out Bitcoin payments nine months ago in May 2025, the U.S.-based chain has seen a hefty 15% […]
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Bitcoin L2 Failures: Why Scaling Solutions Keep Crashing and What Can Save Them Bitcoin, the unchallenged titan of decentralized money, is stuck in a scaling quagmire that’s exposing both technical hurdles and philosophical rifts. With transaction speeds crawling and fees soaring during network congestion, developers and opportunists alike have rushed to build layer-2 (L2) solutions, […]
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