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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Plans to Declare Bitcoin Legal Tender Next Week

June 5, 2021 by DIGIT

At the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, appeared via a Zoom presentation and noted that he plans to submit a bill next week that recognizes bitcoin as legal tender. Bukele revealed a partnership with the company Strike, a bitcoin payments firm launched by Jack Mallers. Progressive President Nayib Bukele Says … Read more

Lightning and Mainnet: A Look at the Protocol’s Hype, Trials, and Error

January 28, 2018 by DIGIT

Over the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of hyped up discussion about the Lightning Network (LN) from those who believe it will help scale the bitcoin core (BTC) protocol. The Lightning Network topic has now moved from BTC testnet experimentation to trialing LN over the currency’s mainnet using real BTC. LN development and … Read more