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BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build out a software project with the goal of obsoleting the payment processor BitPay in response to their actions during the 2017 Blocksize Wars. It has blossomed since then into one of, if not the, most widely used self-hosted payment processing stack

Bitcoin light clients are now able to sync to the tip of the blockchain nearly instantly, thanks to a new development enabled by bitcoin startup ZeroSync and their work in zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. Ultimately, ZeroSync seeks to enable full nodes to do the same.ZK proofs allow a prover to generate a short mathematical statement that

LDK Node, a new Lightning node library, has been announced, offering developers a simplified and ready-to-go solution for setting up a self-custodial Lightning node. Built using LDK and BDK, LDK Node provides a straightforward interface and an integrated on-chain wallet, allowing developers to quickly and easily establish a Lightning node within a day.Unlike its predecessor

A Bitcoin VPN allows two or more parties to discover each other and be able to communicate privately over the public internet without trust.This is an opinion editorial by Moustafa Amin, a technology leader with more than 20 years of professional experience across large organizations, service providers and telephone companies.Bitcoin is undoubtedly the world’s newest…

To actually solve the problem of receiving funds without having secured liquidity from someone else’s node requires protocol-level changes.This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. Ignoring the problems of the Lightning Network and protocol stack seems to be a very popular thing to…