2 years ago
ZEBEDEE, a bitcoin gaming company, has announced No Big Deal (NDB), a non-profit dedicated to furthering unfastened root improvement for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, per a merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
“NBD does not merchantability anything, it does not connection services, it does not enactment products,'' said Andre Neves, co-founder and CTO of ZEBEDEE. “It conscionable writes codification and gives it to the satellite to bash with it arsenic they will.”
Currently, NBD has already contributed to a fig of projects. For instance, the non-profit provided codification for Open Bitcoin Wallet, which is an precocious non-custodial Lightning wallet that tin enactment hosted channels.
Additionally, Poncho, which is simply a Core Lightning (CLN) plugin, and a daemon that enables hosted transmission enactment for nodes known arsenic Cliche person some received contributions from NBD.
Furthermore, the non-profit besides contributed to Immortan, a Lightning Network room that provides plug and play developer capabilities, and LN Metrics, a information examination instrumentality to find optimal Lightning Nodes, person besides received contributions from NBD.
“We fundamentally created an full suite of tools for the modern sovereign individual, from the lawsuit you’d usage to acceptable up a node, to the wallet you’d usage to negociate your funds successful a self-sovereign way,” said Neves.
The institution has focused overmuch of its contributions frankincense acold connected hosted transmission enactment and the Lightning Network. Hosted channels are utilized to marque moving funds crossed Lightning easier and little superior intensive by removing the request to fastener up funds. The downside to locking up funds creates an evident request for bitcoin reserves, which immoderate users bash not person the liquidity to sustain.
The important happening to enactment astir these circumstantial contributions is the continued enlargement of hosted transmission enactment and the continued maturation of the Lightning Network removes the request for custodial services, specified arsenic the ones offered by ZEBEDEE themselves.
“This opens the doorway to much radical moving their ain software, clients and infrastructure alternatively of utilizing for-profit services similar ZEBEDEE,” reads the release. “But that’s benignant of the constituent of Bitcoin, truthful it’s No Big Deal.”
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