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ForkLog 10 28.01.2021

Blockstream buys $25 million worth of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from MicroBT

Blockstream has purchased $25 million worth of WhatsMiner Bitcoin miners from the Shenzhen-based MicroBT.

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ForkLog 8 04.01.2021

Blockstream unveils Jade hardware Bitcoin wallet

Blockstream has entered the market for hardware cryptocurrency wallets with its Jade device, open-source, enabling users to store Bitcoin and other assets on the Liquid Network sidechain.

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ForkLog 10 07.11.2020

Blockstream developers unveil new multisignature scheme

In light of the upcoming activation of Taproot, the infrastructure company Blockstream has begun developing a new scheme aimed at improving the existing multisignature mechanism for executing Bitcoin transactions.

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ForkLog 15 28.09.2020

Blockstream unveils new wallet with Bitcoin and Liquid sidechain support

Blockstream unveiled a new Bitcoin wallet AQUA. Designed for mobile devices (initially for iOS), it also supports assets issued on the Liquid sidechain.

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ForkLog 14 14.09.2020

BitMEX tests Blockstream satellite Bitcoin node.

Analysts from BitMEX Research installed and tested Blockstream's product, which enables a Bitcoin node to download and verify the blockchain via satellite without an Internet connection.

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ForkLog 36 15.04.2020

What is the Liquid Network?

1 What is the Liquid Network? Liquid Network is Bitcoin’s federated sidechain, serving as a settlement and payments network for exchanges, market-makers, brokers and other market participants. Built on the Elements codebase, it uses Strong Federation. 2 How did the Liquid Network come about? In autumn 2014 Blockstream published a white paper on sidechains titled Sidechain Elements. In June 2015 it released open-source code and a test network to let developers experiment with sidechain functionality.

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Krzysztof Shpak 623 14.02.2020

Samson Mow: Bitcoin Is a Way to Prevent an Orwellian Future

There are certain polarizing topics in the cryptocurrency community: which of Bitcoin forks is the true Bitcoin, what consensus algorithms are really viable, what coins will dominate the markets of the future.

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ForkLog 959 03.09.2019

Blockstream’s Christian Decker On Latest Lightning Network Developments And What Bitcoin Could Be Like In Future

Christian Decker is one of the true Bitcoin veterans and the first person in the world to get a Bitcoin related PhD. Today the Switzerland-born engineer is one of the leading developers at Blockstream working on Lightning Network specifications and C-Lightning implementation. In an exclusive interview with ForkLog, Christian Decker tells how he came to […]

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ForkLog 505 12.05.2019

Blockstream Joins Forces With GoTenna to Send Bitcoin Transactions Without Internet Connection

Blockchain technology company Blockstream has announced it is partnering with goTenna in order to integrate their respective technologies – Blockstream Satellite and TxTenna – enabling people to send Bitcoin transactions without direct internet connections.

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ForkLog 261 02.03.2019

Blockstream’s Lightning Network Upgrade Featuring Plugin Functionality Released

Blockstream’s engineering team has announced the release of v0.7 c-lightning, the company’s implementation of Lightning Network protocol.

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ForkLog 372 17.12.2018

Sky Is No Limit – Blockstream Bitcoin Satellite Service Boosted With Lightning Network Payments

Blockchain technology firm Blockstream has expanded its Bitcoin satellite service to the Asia-Pacific region. The company also added support for Lightning Network transactions, which will allow users to pay for its service using the second layer scaling solution as soon as in January 2019.

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ForkLog 301 11.10.2018

Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain for the Bitcoin Network Goes Live

More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada’s Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.

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