Lightning News - Breaking Bitcoin & Lightning Stories

April 2, 2025

Lightning Network

How Flash Enables Interoperable, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Commerce

Abstract, geometric structure on a black background.

Science

Understanding Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Bitcoin

Economics

Bitvault Founder: Bitcoin Price Could Reach Millions as Institutional Adoption Accelerates

Bitcoin mining is the backbone of the world’s first decentralized digital currency. But how is bitcoin mined? And why does this process matter for security, scarcity, and decentralization?

Innovation

How Is Bitcoin Mined?

The environmental toll keeps mounting as mining operations pump out 77 million to 96 million tons of CO2 every year. Much of the damage goes beyond emissions.

Science

From Coal to Cool: Bitcoin Mining’s Radical Makeover

When did the Lightning Network start on bitcoin? How did it grow into the payment powerhouse it is today?

Innovation

When Did the Lightning Network Start on Bitcoin?

April 1, 2025

Whether you’re a small merchant, an enterprise, or a creator, we break down the best bitcoin payment solutions for every use case—from privacy-focused tools to enterprise-grade platforms.

Economics

Best Bitcoin Payment Solutions

sMiles- the trailblazing platform that turns daily tasks into tangible bitcoin rewards—has unveiled its all-new sMiles Web App.

News

Earn Bitcoin on Desktop: sMiles Web App Supercharges Sat Stacking

Why Lightning Network Tips Beat Cash Tips

byLeon

March 29, 2025

News

Braiins Open-Sources BCB100: Empowers Community-Driven Mining Innovation

March 28, 2025

Best VPNs to Buy Over the Lightning Network

Fold, a leader in bitcoin-powered financial solutions, and CrowdHealth, the innovative healthcare crowdfunding platform, recently announced a groundbreaking partnership.

Fold and CrowdHealth Partner to Revolutionize Healthcare with Bitcoin Integration

Book Review: Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises

Lorena Almada—an electromechanical engineer by trade—stumbled into a conversation that would reroute her life’s trajectory.

Lorena Almada: “Misconceptions are harmful to bitcoin, as they delay adoption”

The 7th annual Mining Disrupt Conference, the world’s premier event for bitcoin mining and blockchain technology, officially launches today at the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Mining Disrupt 2025 Kicks Off: A Global Hub for Bitcoin Mining and Innovation

Best VPNs to Buy Over the Lightning Network

Fold and CrowdHealth Partner to Revolutionize Healthcare with Bitcoin Integration

Book Review: Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises

Lorena Almada: “Misconceptions are harmful to bitcoin, as they delay adoption”

Mining Disrupt 2025 Kicks Off: A Global Hub for Bitcoin Mining and Innovation

Best VPNs to Buy Over the Lightning Network

Fold and CrowdHealth Partner to Revolutionize Healthcare with Bitcoin Integration

Book Review: Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises

Lorena Almada: “Misconceptions are harmful to bitcoin, as they delay adoption”

Mining Disrupt 2025 Kicks Off: A Global Hub for Bitcoin Mining and Innovation

Latest News

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has officially signed House Bill 701, known as the "Bitcoin Rights" bill, into law, reinforcing Kentucky's stance as a bitcoin-friendly state and advancing its bitcoin regulation framework.

Policy

Kentucky Governor Enacts ‘Bitcoin Rights’ Bill

byGracious John

March 25, 2025

Meet the visionary behind The Bitcoin Hardware Store (TBHS), a sanctuary where curiosity meets cold wallets, and skepticism transforms into self-custody.

Lightning Leaders

The Bitcoin Hardware Store: Rebuilds Finance Brick by Bitcoin

BTC Inc recently announced a major expansion of its Open Source Hub for Bitcoin 2025, set to take place May 27–29 at the Venetian Conference Center in Las Vegas.

Press Release

Bitcoin 2025 Conference: Expanded Open Source Hub to Accelerate Decentralized Innovation

Bitcoin Nairobi isn’t just about disrupting M-Pesa’s dominance; it’s about planting seeds of sovereignty.

Lightning Leaders

Bitcoin Nairobi: Planting Seeds of Sovereignty in Kenya’s Capital

The other part of Microlancer is the services section, which has grown a lot in the last couple of years. It's a place to advertise your services that you don't need to pay for in advance.

Lightning Leaders

Microlancer: The Future of Decentralised Freelancing

byAndy Savage

The U.S. government’s approach to bitcoin has evolved significantly, with recent discussions centering on the creation of a 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' (SBR).

Economics

Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Will The U.S. Government Buy Bitcoin?

byGracious John

This is the Bitcoin Film Festival (BFF), where storytellers, pixels and blockchain, collide to redefine culture in the age of digital sovereignty.

Bitcoin Film Festival: Lights, Camera, Orange Pill

Bitcoin, by design, is a tool for financial and political freedom. But what happens when global powers start deciding who can and cannot use it and to what extent, including as legal tender for a sovereign nation?

Bitcoin, the IMF, and You

Metaplanet, a Japanese public company, has been aggressively adopting a bitcoin treasury strategy, positioning itself as a leader in Asia and one of the top global corporate holders of bitcoin.

Metaplanet’s Blueprint for Dominating Asia’s Bitcoin Economy

The Core Lightning (CLN) development team recently announced the release of v0.99.0, a major update to its lightweight, open-source Lightning Network implementation.

Core Lightning v25.02: Enhanced Security, Privacy, and Developer Tools

Breez, the leading provider of Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure SDK, today announced its Q1 2025 partner cohort, showcasing 10 innovative companies leveraging its infrastructure to redefine payments in AI, decentralized finance, social media, and beyond.

Breez SDK Powers Bitcoin Payments Across Industries: Meet the Q1 2025 Cohort

Bitcoin Film Festival: Lights, Camera, Orange Pill

Bitcoin, the IMF, and You

Metaplanet’s Blueprint for Dominating Asia’s Bitcoin Economy

Core Lightning v25.02: Enhanced Security, Privacy, and Developer Tools

Breez SDK Powers Bitcoin Payments Across Industries: Meet the Q1 2025 Cohort

Bitcoin Film Festival: Lights, Camera, Orange Pill

Bitcoin, the IMF, and You

Metaplanet’s Blueprint for Dominating Asia’s Bitcoin Economy

Core Lightning v25.02: Enhanced Security, Privacy, and Developer Tools

Breez SDK Powers Bitcoin Payments Across Industries: Meet the Q1 2025 Cohort

Events

Discover All

Events

Mining Disrupt 2025 Kicks Off: A Global Hub for Bitcoin Mining and Innovation

March 25, 2025

Fort Lauderdale, FL – March 25-27, 2025 – Mining Disrupt, the premier global conference dedicated to bitcoin mining and blockchain innovation, is set to host its largest and most dynamic event yet at the Broward Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale from March 25-27.

Events

Mining Disrupt 2025 Set to Break Record as the Premier Global Bitcoin Mining Event

February 25, 2025

Events

BtcPlusPlus: Bitcoin Developers Gather for Beach-Side Hackathon in Brazil

February 22, 2025

Events

BitcoinDay Spotlights Tampa’s Bitcoin Experts

January 27, 2025

Lightning Leaders

Discover All

Lightning Leaders

Lorena Almada: “Misconceptions are harmful to bitcoin, as they delay adoption”

Lorena Almada—an electromechanical engineer by trade—stumbled into a conversation that would reroute her life’s trajectory. From doubting its legitimacy to becoming a fiery maximalist and…

March 26, 2025

Lightning Leaders

The Bitcoin Hardware Store: Rebuilds Finance Brick by Bitcoin

Bitcoin is often misunderstood—branded as enigmatic, volatile, or even villainous. One entrepreneur is turning myths into manuals and complexity into clarity. Meet the visionary behind The…

March 25, 2025

Lightning Leaders

Bitcoin Nairobi: Planting Seeds of Sovereignty in Kenya’s Capital

In Nairobi, where the hum of mobile money fuels daily life and inflation quietly erodes dreams, a quiet revolution is brewing. At its helm is Martin Mutonga, a visionary who traded skepticism…

March 24, 2025

Lightning Leaders

Microlancer: The Future of Decentralised Freelancing

byAndy Savage

March 24, 2025

Lightning Leaders

Bitcoin Film Festival: Lights, Camera, Orange Pill

March 22, 2025

In the heart of rural Kenya, where traditional financial systems often fail to protect savings from inflation and instability, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Bitcoin Chama—a community-driven initiative blending age-old cooperative savings practices with cutting-edge bitcoin technology—is rewriting the rules of economic empowerment.

Lightning Leaders

Bitcoin Chama: Kenya’s Bitcoin-Powered Rural Community

March 19, 2025

In a world where traditional finance often feels slow, costly, and out of touch, three New Zealanders are pioneering a bitcoin-powered revolution—right from the heart of Aotearoa. Meet Simon Collins and the team behind Lightning Pay NZ, the homegrown startup shaking up how Kiwis save, spend, and interact with money.

Lightning Leaders

Lightning Pay NZ: Empowers Kiwis to Reclaim their Financial Sovereignty.

March 17, 2025

Lightning Leaders

Gustavo Flores: “Bitcoin is the best form of money ever invented”

March 15, 2025

Trending Now

News

Breez Unveils Misty Breez Wallet: Self-Custody on Bitcoin’s Liquid Network

Lightning Network

How Flash Enables Interoperable, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Commerce

Science

Understanding Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Bitcoin

Economics

Bitvault Founder: Bitcoin Price Could Reach Millions as Institutional Adoption Accelerates

Innovation

How Is Bitcoin Mined?

Building on Lightning: Flash Reinvents Caribbean Money with the Breez SDK

byRoy Sheinfeld

March 18, 2025

We’re diving headfirst into the top 20 bitcoin-only X accounts—the prophets, pirates, and philosophers who’ve turned their backs on the fiat zoo to worship at the altar of the orange pill.

News

Satoshi’s Apostles: Top 20 Bitcoin-Only X Accounts to Follow

March 18, 2025

By enabling instant, fraud-proof transactions, Voltage empowers casinos to securely tap into the booming $250M digital currency gambling market while future-proofing their operations against financial risks.

Economics

How Voltage Revolutionizes Casino Payments through the Lightning Network

March 16, 2025

bitcoin berlin el salvador circular economy

Lightning Network

How Lightning Subscriptions Could Turbocharge Bitcoin Circular Economies

Lightning Network

Direct Debit Meets Lightning: NWC’s Game-Changing Impact on Bitcoin Payments

Meet Edgar Borja, the founder of K1 Technology—a hardware maverick on a mission to turn pocket change into financial liberation.

Lightning Leaders

K1 Technology: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology

The Bitcoin Travel Rule, is drawing fierce debate across the digital currency industry as governments worldwide move to enforce stricter transparency measures on digital asset transactions.

Economics

Bitcoin Travel Rule: Debate Over Privacy and Compliance

Lightning Leaders

Evelyn Lemus: “Take action; talk about bitcoin, teach about bitcoin, use bitcoin”

Meet Andy Savage—a pragmatist with a rebel’s heart. When he discovered that a few dollars could build a school for pennies on the aid-agency dollar, he didn’t just ask questions. He built answers.

Lightning Leaders

Click for Charity: Where every Click, every Satoshi, flows from donor to dreamer

Policy

Discover All

Policy

Kentucky Governor Enacts ‘Bitcoin Rights’ Bill

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has officially signed House Bill 701, known as the “Bitcoin Rights” bill, into law, reinforcing Kentucky’s stance as a bitcoin-friendly state…

byGracious John

March 25, 2025

Policy

Is it legal to operate a Lightning Node?

January 9, 2025

News

Breez Unveils Misty Breez Wallet: Self-Custody on Bitcoin’s Liquid Network

April 2, 2025

Lightning Network

How Flash Enables Interoperable, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Commerce

April 2, 2025

Science

Understanding Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Bitcoin

April 2, 2025

Economics

Bitvault Founder: Bitcoin Price Could Reach Millions as Institutional Adoption Accelerates

April 2, 2025

Economics

Discover All

Economics

Bitvault Founder: Bitcoin Price Could Reach Millions as Institutional Adoption Accelerates

In a recent interview, Francesco Madonna, founder of open-source Bitcoin wallet BitVault, shared insights on Bitcoin’s growing institutional adoption, security innovations, and long-term…