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Latest Strikes 27 - Mar. 6th-12th 2023

How you doin'? Last week was a bit less tumultuous than the previous one, but there was still a lot happening. Let's unfold it together, shall we? Ecosystem Lightning Prisms Gigi published an interesting article defining a novel payment flow called Lightning Prisms. The idea, initially brought up by Andrew

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Latest Strikes 26 - Feb. 27th - Mar. 6th

Live long and prosper 🖖 Welcome to the 26th issue of Latest Strikes! That's right, 26. At the yet unbroken pace of one issue per week, this means that it has been half a year since we started covering the amazing work of Lightning builders all around the world in this

Latest Strikes 25 - Feb. 20th-26th 2023

Latest Strikes 25 - Feb. 20th-26th 2023

Welcome to the 25th edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly dose of Lightning stuff! Last week saw BlueWallet sunsetting their custodial Lightning offering, some developments in the synergies between Lightning and Nostr, as well as some research on payment reliability and wallets usability. Let's dive in together! Ecosystem Check Splitting

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Latest Strikes 24 - Feb. 13th-19th 2023

Howdy! The Lightning-Dev mailing list was quite busy last week, with very interesting discussions! But that's not it: there were also tons of releases, as well as very good news in the education and adoption fronts. Let's find out more together! Ecosystem Zion Zion announced a six million dollars raise

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Latest Strikes 23 - Feb. 6th-12th 2023

Pura Vida! Welcome to the 23rd issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of curated Lightning news! Last week was busy, with good ol' Marty releasing Scrib, the Alby team rolling out a new update AND a benchmark, and many more builders shipping! Grab a snack or a hot drink,

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Latest Strikes 22 - Jan. 30th-Feb. 5th 2023

"Greeting, Lightning wanderer! I hear you're interested in discovering the latest developments in the mighty kingdgom of Lightning? Follow me, my young friend, as we descend into the valley." You're a bit baffled by what just happened, but still decide to follow the strange man. "Do not worry, he tells

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Latest Strikes 21 - Jan. 23rd-29th 2023

Hello it's a me! Welcome to the 21st edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap in the turmoils of the Lightning world. Last week was a bit like a Super Mario level: full of exciting stuff and with plenty of Goombas to smash! Ecosystem Lightning 🤝 Nostr If you've been following

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Latest Strikes 20 - Jan. 16th-22nd 2023

Last week was big - again. From Breez releasing its SDK to Wavlake launching a revamped Lightning-powered music streaming platform, there was no time left to get bored! Jump in the stream with us to see what you might have missed! Ecosystem Channel Ninja There's a new channel recommendation tool

Latest Strikes 19 - Jan.9th-15th 2023

Latest Strikes 19 - Jan.9th-15th 2023

Hello there! Last week was once again a busy week in the Lightning ecosystem, both in terms of ease of use and security/resilience. Let's dig deeper together to see what happened! Ecosystem Lightningcon Vietnam The LightningCon Vietnam conference will happen in March 23-24, and tickets are for sale! Prices

Latest Strikes 18 - Jan.2nd-8th 2022

Latest Strikes 18 - Jan.2nd-8th 2022

Last week was electric, with some fascinating discussions around inbound fees in Lightning, some cool releases and a new promising LNBits extension. Can you stand the voltage? Ecosystem Alby Pays Peertube Bounty Alby paid the 400,000 sats bounty (funded by German podcast and community Einundzwanzig and an anonymous donor)

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Latest Strikes 17 - Dec. 26th - Jan. 1st 2022

Happy New Year! And welcome for the 17th edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of Lightning news. As you can imagine, last week wasn't the busiest of the year, but here we are. Take a sit and a cup of coffee or tea, and let's start this new year

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Latest Strikes 16 - Dec.19th-25th 2022

A plug-and-play device to connect any vending machine to Lightning, more self-sovereign tools and Lightning channels in Statechains: that's just a glimpse of what happened in Lightning last week. Read further to find out more, and don't forget to subscribe! Ecosystem Plug Any Vending Machine To Lightning René Aaron shared

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Latest Strikes 15 - Dec. 12th-18th 2022

A new LNBits release, a promising vision and builders keeping on building: that was Lightning last week. Read further to find out more, and remember: if you want to receive your weekly recap in your inbox before anyone else, all you have to do is subscribe. Ready? Steady. Go! Ecosystem

Poly filling buffer for Ledger Wallet

Ledger is the latest authentication method to come to LN Markets. Lucky Ledger customers can now register and login directly with their hardware wallet. How does it work ? The user simply has to connect his wallet to his computer, go to lnmarkets home page and click on 'Ledger' in the

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Latest Strikes 14 - Dec. 5th-11th 2022

A new point of sale app linked to Bitcoin Beach Wallet, the winners of the LegendsOfLightning tournament announced, faster, easier and cheaper remittances ... This week in Lightning was, as usual, busy and well-filled. Read further to find out more, and remember: if you want to receive your weekly recap in

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Latest Strikes 13 - Nov. 18th - Dec. 4th 2022

Last week was a big one, with a new release for each of the three major Lightning implementations, and some decisive steps toward generalized channels. Let's dive in! Ecosystem Lightning (And Email) Addresses In Vida Lightning Addresses are now a thing in Vida, and every user gets one (it's basically

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Latest Strikes 12 - Nov. 21st-27th 2022

Wondering what happened in Lightning last week? Well, wonder no more, and read further to find out! Wallets & Tools Who Needs A Lightning Wallet When You Have A Browser? Remember the Mutiny Web Wallet we discovered in Latest Strikes #10? The team behind the project made some significant progress and

#58 - Our mission, Lightning news and the best memes

#58 - Our mission, Lightning news and the best memes

LN Markets’ Mission We didn’t cover the 3AC, Celsius, or Luna debacles here. Because you and we have already read too much about these epic failures. And because we prefer to focus on what really matters: Bitcoin. But the magnitude of the FTX scandal and the gravity of the

#57 - The art of investing with Preston Pysh and much more!

#57 - The art of investing with Preston Pysh and much more!

🎙️ The art of investing with Preston Pysh Preston Pysh is an entrepreneur, engineer, financial expert, podcaster, former military man, bestselling author, and has been awarded the bronze star in combat while commanding an attack helicopter company with the 101st Airborne Division. Preston hosts one of the top-ranked investing podcasts on

#56 - Peter McCormack, LNM Fam, Lightning Ecosystem, and much more!

#56 - Peter McCormack, LNM Fam, Lightning Ecosystem, and much more!

🎙️ Orange pilling with Peter McCormack Should Peter McCormack be introduced at this point? Peter has established himself as a key figure in the Bitcoin community as the host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast and the chairman of the Real Bedford FC. We sincerely appreciate him taking the time to

#55 - Bitcoin Security with Jameson Lopp, LNM Fam, Lightning Ecosystem, and much more!

#55 - Bitcoin Security with Jameson Lopp, LNM Fam, Lightning Ecosystem, and much more!

🎙️ Bitcoin Security with Jameson Lopp As per his wikipedia page (classy), “Jameson Lopp is an American cypherpunk, software engineer, columnist, and Bitcoin advocate. Lopp is co-founder and CTO of bitcoin security provider Casa. Lopp has been publicly involved in cryptocurrency dating back to 2012. He was the subject of a

#54 - Bitcoin Reformism with Dennis Pourteaux, LNM World Cup, Latest Strikes, and much more!

#54 - Bitcoin Reformism with Dennis Pourteaux, LNM World Cup, Latest Strikes, and much more!

🎙️ Bitcoin Reformism with Dennis Pourteaux We are big fans Dennis Pourteaux's insightful and humorous writings and tweets on a wide range of subjects, including geopolitics, digital sovereignty, humanism, and of course Bitcoin. Dennis is a native Iowan with an MPH from Harvard, MD from the University of Iowa and is

#53 - New Release, LNC, Surfin'Bitcoin, and much more!

#53 - New Release, LNC, Surfin'Bitcoin, and much more!

⚔️ LNM Fam We’re back to school with a new LN Markets release featuring: 🔥 Trading limit 5 times bigger: from 2 to 10 million satoshis (0.1 BTC) 🔐 Additional login option with Lightning Node Connect 🇪🇸🇫🇷 New languages: Spanish & French ⚡️ Simple transfers within different LNM accounts with Lightning Address ✅ Several bug