Lightning Payments
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Reducing Fraud and Chargebacks in iGaming with Bitcoin Payments
Fraud and chargebacks cost iGaming operators over $2+ billion per year, largely due to reversible payment rails like ACH and credit cards. Bitcoin payments over the Lightning Network eliminate reversals, reduce fraud vectors, and enable instant, programmable payouts that protect margins and improve player experience.
How Bitcoin and Stablecoins Will Transform Online Casino Liquidity
Exploring how Taproot Assets and Lightning enable instant, dollar-denominated gameplay and settlement, with near zero fees and zero chargebacks.
10 Reasons Why Instant Bitcoin Payments Are the Future of iGaming
How Lightning’s global payment infrastructure is solving latency, fraud, and cost challenges in online gaming
From Fiat Friction to Instant Play: How Bitcoin Lightning Is Transforming iGaming, Prediction Markets, and Redemptions
A player-first look at faster withdrawals, fewer chargebacks, and global access.
Voltage Payments on Mainnet: Credit Backed Lightning Payments Are Live
Voltage Payments is now live on mainnet, and eliminates the need for businesses to pre-fund or manage their own Lightning Network liquidity by offering a credit-based model that enables instant Bitcoin transactions. Companies can now move money at internet speed, settling in USD or BTC later, freeing up capital, reducing operational overhead, and accelerating product launches through a simple API-driven payments platform.
The Real Cost of Ignoring Lightning: Why Top Exchanges Are Making the Shift
Forward-thinking product leaders and CFOs at crypto exchanges are turning to the Lightning Network to reduce fees, accelerate withdrawals, and unlock new revenue streams. As user expectations shift toward instant, low-cost payments, platforms that fail to integrate Lightning risk falling behind—while those that act now are gaining a powerful edge in speed, efficiency, and user experience.
Fixing Bitcoin Payments for Casinos: How Lightning Eliminates Fraud for Digital and In-Person Betting
Bitcoin’s Replace-by-Fee (RBF) feature creates a major fraud risk for both online and in-person gambling payments, allowing players to reverse transactions after placing bets. The Lightning Network eliminates this issue by enabling instant, irreversible payments, ensuring secure and cost-effective transactions for casinos and betting platforms.
Unbank Teams Up with Voltage to Bring Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Transactions to 40,000+ Locations, Including Walgreens and CVS
Unbank has partnered with Voltage to enable Lightning-powered Bitcoin transactions at over 40,000 locations, including Walgreens and CVS. This integration brings instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments to everyday users, making cryptocurrency more accessible and seamless.
Future-Proofing Financial Transactions: The Role of Instant Settlement in 2025
No existing financial system—traditional or crypto—delivers truly global, instant, and final settlement. Only Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and stablecoins on Lightning offer a breakthrough solution, eliminating intermediaries, reducing costs, and ensuring unstoppable, irreversible transactions in 2025 and beyond.
The Next Frontier of Payments: How Stablecoins Create Hypergrowth of Revenue
Discover how stablecoins on the Lightning Network are transforming payments with lower fees, faster settlements, and global scalability. Learn how businesses can unlock hypergrowth by embracing this next-generation solution.
Future-Proof Stablecoins: Why Bitcoin and Lightning Are Game-Changers
Discover why Bitcoin and the Lightning Network are poised to revolutionize stablecoins, offering unparalleled security, scalability, and cost-efficiency compared to existing platforms like Ethereum and Tron.
Why Exchanges and Neobanks are choosing Voltage for Lightning over DIY
A deep dive comparison on the challenges and hurdles of running DIY Lightning compared to Voltages Lightning Payments Provider.
The Rise of Stablecoins: Global Demand and How Bitcoin and the Lightning Network Could Be the Future
Today I break down why Stablecoins on the Lightning Network solve most of Stablecoins issues today. Decentralized networks with an appropriate incentive structure and the only decentralized blockchain (Bitcoin) win.
BOLT 12 - Natively Enhancing Lightning’s User Experience
BOLT 12 enhances the Lightning Network by enabling static QR codes for payments, overcoming BOLT 11 limitations. This simplifies transactions, improves user experience, and supports a broader range of use cases through native, secure communication between Lightning nodes.
Multipart Payments - AMP/MMP
Penalty Transactions on Lightning
Exploring the Benefits of Lightning Network for Enterprises
Lightning Payments: Pre-Images & Hashes
What are Blinded Paths and How do they Work?
