Fanis Michalakis

Latest Strikes 63 - November 13th-19th 2023

Welcome back, Lightninger! Last week was a bit noisy, but we'll try to get to the signal! We've got a surge of ads on Lightning, a drama between Greek gods and pirates, interesting discussions around Bolt12 Lightning Addresses, and much more! Ecosystem Lightning Ads The topic of ads on Lightning

Latest Strikes 62 - November 6th-12th 2023

Happy Satsturday, Lightninger! Welcome to your recap of all the things that happened in Lightning last week. We got some interesting announcements at Adopting Bitcoin, Geyser embracing Nostr, and a tremendous update to one of the most powerful Lightning wallets out there. Let's dive in! Ecosystem New Referral System In

Latest Strikes 61 - October 30th-November 5th 2023

Happy Satsturday, Lightninger! Welcome to the 61st issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of what's happening in the tumultuous world of Lightning. Last week got us more Lightning adoption, as well as some interesting discussions on the mailing lists. Let's dive in! And of course, remember, remember, the 5th

Latest Strikes 60 - October 23rd-29th 2023

Hey there, Lightninger! As we march toward the Day of the Dead and the Celebration of the Whitepaper, let's take a moment to celebrate how well alive Lightning is, in spite of its obituary having been pronounced by many in the last two weeks in the wake of the replacement

Latest Strikes 59 - October 16th-22nd 2023

Hey there, Lightninger! Last week was a busy one, with a big discussion around a new Lightning vulnerability, self-custodial Lightning Addresses, and more! Let's unwrap it all, shall we? EDIT: a previous version of this post mistakenly stated that mitigations against replacement cycling attacks were in place in LND by

Latest Strikes 58 - October 9th-15th 2023

Howdy Lightninger! This is yet another late recap, but here it is. Let's call it a mise en bouche before monday's recap, where we'll get a close look at the Lightning vulnerability that made headlines this week. And with that, I wish you a pleasant Satsturday! Ecosystem Another Outstanding River

Latest Strikes 57

Hi there, Lightninger! I know it comes a bit late (it's satsturday already!), but here's what you've been waiting for all week: your recap of all the great things that happened in the Lightning world last week. As you'll see, it was a good one, with lots of interesting ideas

Latest Strikes 56 - September 25th-October 1st

Hello, Lightninger! Welcome to your recap of the latest news of the Lightning Network! Last week was another vibrant one, full of Lightning DLCs, payment reliability enhancements and new liquidity tools. Let's dive in! Ecosystem Lightning DLCs FTW Seems like last week was the week for Lightning DLCs! * The Human

Latest Strikes 55 - September 18th-24th 2023

Hey there, Lightninger! Ready for your weekly recap of the latest news of the Lightning Network? Last week got us some interesting stats and case studies, plenty of releases, and an inspiring proposal. Let's dive in! Ecosystem Some Efficiency Numbers The person behind the LNBig nodes ran the numbers and

Latest Strikes 54 - September 11th-17th 2023

Hi Lightninger! Fancy a little recap of last week's Lightning news? You're in the right place! Last week we got to know more about the vulnerabilities that affected Electrum in versions before 4.4.6, enjoyed a whole bunch of new product launches, and fancy discussions. Let's dive in! Ecosystem

Latest Strikes 53 - September 4th-10th 2023

Hey Lightninger! Welcome to your weekly recap of the Lightning Network news, brought to you by LN Markets. Last week brought us hackathons, rich protocol design discussions, marvellous updates and promising announcements! Ecosystem TabConf Hackathon TabConf took place last week in Atlanta with a lot of talks, workshops, chess games,

Latest Strikes 52 - August 28th-September 3rd 2023

Welcome to the 52nd issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the news in the Lightning world, brought to you by LN Markets! This one is a bit special for me, because 52 means it's been exactly a year since I first started writing those. Verba volant, scripta

Latest Strikes 51 - August 21st-27th 2023

Welcome to the 51st edition of Latest Strikes! In case you're new here, Latest Strikes are a weekly recap of the news from the Lightning Network ecosystem, brought to you by the LN Markets team. Last week was a big one, with a vulnerability disclosure, a nice self-custodial Lightning Address

Latest Strikes 50 - August 14th-20th 2023

Wassup Lightningers! Last week got us some grants, a new LSP and a very interesting proposal! Ready to learn more? Let's dive in! Ecosystem Grants Last week awarded us with another wave of OpenSats grants, of which 3 are going to Lightning-related projects: LNBits, Watchdescriptor and Fedimint. The goal of

Latest Strikes 49 - August 7th-13th 2023

Meep morp, fellow Lightninger. Last week got us more Lightning x AI synergies, interoperability and exciting developments. Let's take a look! Ecosystem Latest StackerNews Release Removes Need For An Account Last week StackerNews released a couple of updates that, I think, embody an interesting and desirable direction for Lightning apps.

Latest Strikes 48 - July 31st-August 6th 2023

Welcome to Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the things happening in the Lightning world. Last week got us splicing in Core Lightning, some nice wallet releases, and the beginning of the work on experimenting with reputation-based mitigation against channel jamming. Let's dive in! Ecosystem Stacker News "Hacked" An

Latest Strikes 47 - July 24th-31st 2023

Last week was another vibrant one for Lightning: a new implementation was announced, grants rained down on developers and funding software blossomed. Last week also some interesting discussions around self-custody, privacy and decentralization. Let's dive in! Ecosystem It's Raining Grants The Humans Right Foundations (HRF) launched a new campaign called

Latest Strikes 46 - July 17th-23rd 2023

Hi there 👋 Finding the signal and cutting through the noise is hard. That's what I'm trying to achieve with this newsletter, and while I like to think I sometimes reach this goal - at least in some way -, it's more of an asymptotic target than something I will ever

Latest Strikes 45 - July 10th-16th 2023

Last week was massive for Lightning wallets! We got an impressive Phoenix update, Mutiny coming out of beta, and Zeus literally unleashing the thunder! So take your umbrella, because we're headed in a hell of a storm! Ecosystem More OpenSats Grants! OpenSats distributed the first wave of Bitcoin grants last

Latest Strikes 44 - July 3rd-9th 2023

Ecosystem Greetings! Welcome to the 44th issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the things happening in Lightning! This week's piece is filled with great stuff, from open source grants to the mighty AI x Lightning convergence! I know exploring the Lightning space is a perilous enterprise, but

Latest Strikes 43 - June 26-July 2nd 2023

Welcome to the 43rd issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the great things happening in the realm of Lightning! Funny enough, 43 is a bit of a special number: it's the greatest number that is not a McNugget number. That is, any number above 43 can be

Latest Strikes 42 - June 19th-25th 2023

Hello, and welcome to... Wait! Hold on. Which Latest Strikes issue are we at? That's right: 42. So get your galactic Michelin Guide ready, because we're going on a space journey! But as you may know, the outer space is vast and space travel takes a long time, even when

Latest Strikes 41 - June 12th-18th 2023

Welcome to the 41st issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of everything new and shiny in the Lightning world! Last week was another prime one, with a lot of interesting things happening. So buckle up, prime the engine, put your helmet on, and let's dive into the stream. Prime

Latest Strikes 40 - June 5th-11th 2023

Welcome to the 40th edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the great things happening in the Lightning ecosystem. With 4 issues a month, it means we've now been covering the Lightning news together for ten consecutive months. Quite a tumultuous, yet pleasant journey, am I right? And,

Latest Strikes 39 - May 29th-June 4th 2023

Dobrý den! Welcome to the 39th issue of Latest Strikes, your opinionated weekly recap of all the great things happening in Lightning. Last week we got Voltage partnering with Google Cloud, a new fancy hardware product, a very welcomed collective initiative and ton of new releases! By the way, before