Research Shows Blockstream and Lightning Labs Pours the Most Money into Bitcoin Development

Mar 31, 2020

For the past decade, Bitcoin has been almost synonymous with the word decentralization. With no single entity governing the world’s largest and most valuable cryptocurrency, many saw it as the best way to keep their investments safe from market downturns and fiat currency devaluation. But, n...

Blockstream Mining: A Grassroots Vision for Redistributing Hashrate

Aug 14, 2019

Blockstream has been silently scaling over 300 MW of mining facilities in a bid to rebalance the distribution of global hashpower back in the hands of smaller players. On August 8, 2019, the company broke its silence as it unveiled its most recent product, Blockstream Mining. The multi-...

Exclusive Dialogue with Blockstream CEO Adam Back: Bitcoin to $250,000? Turing Completeness a Mistake?

Apr 30, 2019

"In the longer term - some years time - Bitcoin as a competitor to physical gold might, if it met some comparable metrics may reach $250,000. For Turing completeness I think it is a mistake because it creates storage requirements which are hard to scale, statefulness which creates race condi...

Blockstream Developer Says Lightning Not To Replace Bitcoin, Explains Its Difference From SegWit

Dec 23, 2016

Some of the points made about the Lightning Network in a recent article published on 8btc “builds on a number of very common misconceptions about Lightning” says one of the developers with Montreal-based Blockstream which runs the protocol. Christian Decker in an email highlights s...