The evolution toward real-time payment infrastructure creates both opportunities and challenges for AI-powered orchestration ...

While most retail sales still occur in-store, digital is driving innovation as ecommerce grows. Domestic P2P and digital remittance providers will diversify to lure users and monetize solutions.

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.

To protect against routing attacks on the Lightning Network, utilize watchtowers, verify channel state changes, and prioritize well-established payment channels. Payment channels on the Lightning ...

The third article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers the Lightning Network created by Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja. The Lightning Network is a routed network of payment channels ...