After the transaction was executed, Tera issued a press release that the swap «was the first Bitcoin derivative transaction to be executed on a regulated exchange» without disclosing that
the Bitcoin swap transaction did not represent actual liquidity.
Continuing its entry into Bitcoin regulation, one week after the Coinflip action, on September 24, 2015, the CFTC again brought and settled charges related to Bitcoin, this time against TeraExchange LLC (Tera), a provisionally registered SEF, for failing to enforce its prohibition on wash trading and prearranged trading.15 At issue was a U.S. dollar —
Bitcoin swap transaction from October 2014 between the only two market participants then authorized to trade on Tera.
Not exact matches
A previous
Bitcoin Magazine article provides a step - by - step explanation of a simple example where two users agree to
swap agreed amounts of BTC and LTC and use the multisig and time lock features available in both
Bitcoin and Litecoin basic scripting to synchronize two
transactions on two independent blockchains without having to trust each other.It's worth noting that Lightning Network payment channels, now enabled by SegWit, make atomic
swaps more powerful and easier to implement, and permit adding support for off - chain
swaps.
As such, there would no longer be room for a whole set of
Bitcoin features, like time - locked
transactions (used for the Lightning Network among other things), atomic
swaps (for cross-blockchain interoperability), and more.
Previously, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee proposed the possibility of performing atomic
swaps between litecoin and
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While this solves
transaction speed and bottlenecking issues, including being able to
swap Bitcoin for other currencies such as Litecoin, it does mean that those mining
Bitcoin will not make as much money processing lower fee driven
transactions.
In combination with SegWit, the Lightning Network, as well as atomic
swaps, Litecoin could quickly become the currency used for everyday
transactions, and
Bitcoin more as a store of value.
Hence, the protocol has similar properties to
bitcoin tumblers in that it hides the
transaction and the corresponding
swap.
«Previous atomic
swaps that I have done were on - chain, and had the on - chain limitations of slow [
transactions] and high
transaction fees,» Litecoin creator Charlie Lee told
Bitcoin Magazine, referring to an older trick to exchange different types of coins trustlessly.
development team successfully
swapped testnet
bitcoin for testnet litecoin through a lightning channel this week: ownership of the coins changed hands, while no
transaction was recorded on either blockchain.
For example, you can
swap from
bitcoin to a brace of different altcoins without needing to make multiple
transactions.
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has
swapped LTC for BTC in a one - on - one test
transaction with a
Bitcoin holder.
Such was the case with SegWit, an update that prepped litecoin for the first
transactions on the Lightning Network that automatically
swapped bitcoin for litecoin to buy a cup of coffee.
Completed in November, the
transaction saw litecoin and
bitcoin swapped on an off - chain payment channel.