The largest franchise in the world, Subway, is testing out the Lightning Network layer-2 Bitcoin payments solution and receiving encouraging results in Berlin, Germany.
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Why banking uses at least 56 times more energy than Bitcoin
“Bitcoin uses 0.05% of world energy consumption. Banking uses 56 times more energy than Bitcoin,” Michel Khazzaka, a cybersecurity engineer and cryptographer, told Cointelegraph.
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McDonald’s, pizza and coffee paid in Bitcoin: The Plan B for crypto payments
Crypto payments are taking off in a big way in Lugano, Switzerland with 60 merchants and counting.
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Lightning Network releases emergency update after critical bug on LND nodes
The bug led LND nodes to fail to sync chain in the second critical bug in less than a month.
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Bitcoin, not blockchain: Synonym launches mobile BTC wallet
The new mobile wallet, called Bitkit, was unveiled at the PlanB Forum conference in Lugano, Switzerland on Oct. 29.
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Chinese agents used Bitcoin transactions through Wasabi to allegedly bribe US government employee
According to an analysis by crypto risk management firm Elliptic, two Chinese intelligence agents used Wasabi Wallet to conceal BTC transactions allegedly used for bribes.
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