
Some or all of the information on this website may become outdated, or it may be or become incomplete or inaccurate. The information on this website is subject to change without notice. We do not give personalized investment advice or other financial advice. makes no representation or warranty as to the timeliness, completeness, or accuracy of any information on or accessed through this website. The information on or accessed through this website is obtained from independent sources we believe to be accurate and reliable, but Decentral Media, Inc. With more than 80,000 followers, Pierre Rochard, a Bitcoin coder and strategist at Kraken exchange, is one of the most outspoken supporters of the leading cryptocurrency. And in the same week, one of the most influential members of the very same Bitcoin community was caught in the censorship crossfire. Source: Twitterĭespite the gravity of these tweets’ content, many, particularly those in the Bitcoin community, have expressed concern. “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.” Restricted tweets from Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The President tweeted several misleading and unfounded tweets regarding the authenticity of this week’s election.įor his activity, the social media firm curtained his content with the following sentence: Twitter recently censored a swath of highly controversial tweets from the American President, Donald J. Though he’s back tweeting at the time of press, the event reminded users of Twitter’s power over the crypto discourse. At the moment, the exchange is also seeing the benefits of the stock.The popular Bitcoin influencer Pierre Rochard was caught in Twitter’s restriction rampage during election week. The Lightning network proposes to be the future within Bitcoin and the adoption of Kraken means a good step in its expansion desires. A report shows that Lightning payment volume has increased by 400%. The speed and very low transfer cost has made the network very popular, especially since El Salvador adopted BTC as legal tender in September last year. “ While open, these channels do not post intermediate transactions to the blockchain, keeping them ‘off-chain’ to enable instant and efficient transfer of value.”, highlighted CryptoSlate.

Lightning, unlike the Bitcoin network, has the ability to process millions of transactions per second thanks to its system of payment channels that open and close on the main blockchain. In the last 24 hours, its money volume increased by 9% to be in the range of 738 million dollars, still far from Binance (18 billion), Coinbase (2 billion), KuCoin (2 billion) and FTX (1. It is currently fourth in the ranking made by coinmarketcap with a score of 7.9, behind Binance (9.9), Coinbase (8.3), and FTX (8.2). We will have to wait to find out how this will impact the volume of transactions carried out by Kraken, an exchange born in 2011 in the United States. The network has more than 16,000 channels with 3,693 BTC. “ Kraken has 548 Lightning channels with a total capacity of about 11 billion sats, while the largest channel has about 500 million sats”.
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Kraken reported that “ the Lightning ecosystem is rapidly evolving and there are numerous free and open source Lightning wallet solutions”, and exemplified with the case of BTCPay Server, which allows merchants to make instant and almost free payments, which undoubtedly improves the ability to pay with cryptocurrencies.Īccording to Amboss stats used by CryptoSlate: Read: Kraken gives away $1,000 in Bitcoin to Ukrainians
