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Recent Blog Posts

eltoo: A Simplified Update Mechanism for Lightning and Off-Chain Contracts
One of the core innovations that enabled Lightning was an off-chain update mechanism to renegotiate a new state and ensure that the old state can not be settled on-chain. Today, we're excited to release our latest research paper on a new, simplified, update mechanism for layer 2 protocols, called eltoo
How to build your own portable plug-in Lightning node!
A tutorial on how to setup your own portable Lightning node using the USB Armory for easy transport and quick deployment of LApps.
Blockstream Reveals New Advances in Block Detection
Blockchain is complex and blocks can be hard to find, but fear not, the team at Blockstream is always working hard to research new techniques for finding blocks and keeping them flowing!

Press

What’s Bitcoin Worth? A New Plan to Bring Discipline to Crypto Prices
Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2018
NYSE-Parent ICE Partners With Blockstream to Offer Crypto Data
Reuters, January 18, 2018
ICE Teams Up With Blockstream to Launch New Crypto Data Feed
Finance Magnates, January 18, 2018
Keep an Eye Out for These Bitcoin Tech Trends in 2018
Bitcoin Magazine, January 2, 2018