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  A third of Americans to buy Bitcoin by end of 2022, says Ric Edelman Bitcoin ( BTC ) bull and Edelman Financial Engines founder Ric Edelman has made some promising predictions about the future of the seminal cryptocurrency. In an interview on CNBC program ETF Edge on Monday, Edelman  said : “We’re already at a quarter of that number with 24% of Americans owning Bitcoin. It won’t be that much of a stretch for it to get to one-third. Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream. People are hearing about it everywhere — it isn’t going away.” While 2022 has gotten off to a rocky start , in his view, governments, corporations, foundations and pension funds are investing in Bitcoin: “There is major institutional involvement.” As the author of soon-to-be-released  The Truth About Crypto , Edelman is a long-standing crypto proponent. In 2019, he described Bitcoin as the  first “genuinely new asset class” in 150 years , and back in December 2018, he  recommended t...

  Popular mobile payments service Cash App has integrated the Bitcoin Lightning Network as a part of an update, allowing faster and cheaper Bitcoin ( BTC ) transfers using the layer-two (L2) payments protocol.  Cash App is developed and owned by Block (formerly Square), a fintech firm co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The announcement of the Bitcoin L2 integration was shared as a notification on the official Cash App application, which made its way to Crypto Twitter: The news are real!  @CashApp  added  #Bitcoin  Lightning ⚡️Network  pic.twitter.com/zbbdqcx0dC — Yegor Petrov ⚡️ (@yeg0rpetrov)  January 11, 2022 The Lightning Network protocol addresses the noted limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain to improve speeds while reducing transaction fees.  Just last month, Dorsey featured in a video with Lightning Development Kit (LDK), a service developed by Spiral, a Square subsidiary focused on developing the Bitcoin ecosystem. LD...