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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 signed

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 [https://thelightning.

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 mean is that best you can

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