The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

Bitcoin is often praised as a long-term savings technology, but its role as a medium of exchange is just as important—especially for businesses. From local cafés to large corporations, more merchants ...

Cash App users can send and receive payments in BTC via the Lightning Network. Previously, the app could only send on-chain BTC payments. Cash App has an active user base of 47 million, over six-times ...

Flash, a Bitcoin payment platform, has officially launched Flash 2.0, its latest version designed to simplify and accelerate Bitcoin adoption for businesses. The update introduces a redesigned ...

What is crypto payroll? Crypto payroll refers to paying employee salaries using blockchain-based digital currencies.

On Tuesday, Ark Labs announced the public beta launch of the highly anticipated (at least among Bitcoin purists) Arkade, which is a new upper-layer network protocol built on top of the base Bitcoin ...

The digital wallet Cash App is expanding beyond Bitcoin. The payments and banking platform will soon let users send and receive stablecoins, Miles Suter, Bitcoin product lead at the fintech Block, ...

A common phrase you might have heard if you were born before the economic system was digitized and credit cards became the standard form of payment for Americans was “cash is king.” Cash is valuable ...

The price of Bitcoin will continue to decline in 2026, but the infrastructure enabling BTC payments will continue to develop in the new year.

Paying rent in Bitcoin is easy, secure and gaining popularity among tenants. Many cities globally now have tech infrastructure to facilitate Bitcoin payments. Remote workers and digital nomads can now ...