Chinese language crypto journalist and crypto blogger Colin Wu has tweeted that in current Twitter Areas, former MicroStrategy CEO and now govt chairman Michael Saylor stated subsequent 12 months the enterprise intelligence large would launch software program purposes and options based mostly on the Lightning Community.
Particularly, in accordance with Wu, amongst these purposes can be a Lightning Community model of a browser.
Michael Saylor stated within the twitter area that MicroStrategy will launch software program purposes and options powered by the Bitcoin Lightning Community in 2023, reminiscent of a Lightning Community model of the browser.
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) December 29, 2022
Earlier this 12 months, U.Right this moment reported that MicroStrategy was hiring a Bitcoin Lightning Software program Engineer. The enterprise intelligence behemoth then acknowledged that it was planning to make its personal SaaS platform powered by Bitcoin Lightning Community. The aim is to allow enterprises to make use of new options for making e-commerce use instances for the Lightning Community.
On Dec. 28, MicroStrategy acquired one other portion of the flagship cryptocurrency, now holding 132,500 BTC price almost $4 billion. Yesterday, MicroStrategy purchased one other 2,395 BTC. Nevertheless, there’s a new twist within the story of MicroStrategy holding the biggest chunk of Bitcoin on its stability sheet.
Earlier this month, a few week in the past, the corporate, for the primary time, offered 704 Bitcoins, gaining roughly $11.2 million on the sale. Curiously, this sell-off happened after Saylor stated a number of occasions this 12 months that MicroStrategy would by no means promote any of its BTC because it plans to carry them for no less than a number of years (a time period of 10 years was talked about as nicely).
Michael Saylor, the co-founder, is not the chief govt of the corporate however stays its govt chairman. He opted to provide this place over to high-ranking govt Phong Le in August with the intention to place extra concentrate on the Bitcoin technique for his firm. He stays a Bitcoin evangelist, regardless of MicroStrategy having offered a small portion of its BTC stash per week in the past.