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Lightning payments with NFC cards - development notes

In these days of lockdown in Italy, I'm working to realize the idea I had last year of using a contactless card to pay a lightning invoice. The process is simple: payment terminal (POS) generates the invoice and transfers it to the card to be signed, then sends

The Lightning ⚡ Foundation

Nothing can stop Bitcoin, but many things can prevent those who need it from using it, just to write a few: not everyone is always connected to the internet, not everyone has a smartphone, and most of the documentation isn't localized in their native language. The Lightning Foundation

The Power of Digital Barter

The author of this post is Filippo Belfatto. What has come first, the barter economy or the invention o currencies? I think this is the key question of nowadays. Since 2008, with Nakamoto’s invention, Bitcoin, people start thinking about it (or at least this is true for me)[1]

SatoshiTreasure #Key5 Live Coverage

This is a live blog of the hunt for key 5 in Satoshi Treasure, I'm going to meet agent 1. Feel free to comment and chat, key will be shared at the end. Consider contributing to travel: 16FV1UBtzdtseKk8ZdQEAdJGPnEXwcpdaU (BTC)

Any threat to the peace: cyberspace's threat

The author of this post is Filippo Belfatto. One day I woke up with this question. Do cryptocurrencies be considered a threat to sovereignty? I know this sounds strange but what I mean is: when I make a bitcoin transaction am I using a stuff to damage a State? I

An LndHub NFC Lightning card proposal

In our journey to bring Bitcoin to mass adoption, we have to face a very practical problem: paying in shops with BTC isn't simple. I don't mean it's complicated cause you need to have any particular knowledge, everyone can use a smartphone, what I

Link Bluewallet to LndHub on your own VPS Lightning node tutorial

With the Lightning Network taking off and proving the effectiveness of a second layer scaling solution to Bitcoin, it becomes more urgent to provide wallets with natural interfaces and straightforward onboarding processes. In this phase, a team that is pushing in what, according to me, is the right