Hey there, Lightninger! Looking for a good read to take your eyes away from that skyrocketing chat? You're in the right place! Let's get back in time together, back to 20:00 (Moscow Time), and see what happened since then in the electrifying world of Lightning. Ecosystem Amboss Reflex Amboss
Hey there, Lightninger! Welcome to your (sometimes bi)weekly recap of all the great things in Lightning! With no fake "L2s" and no faketoshi inside, I promise! We got a lot to cover in this issue, as it covers not only one, but two weeks worth of marvelous deeds. Let's
Hey there Lightninger! Last week was a big week for us with the reveal of our brand new service, DLC Markets. But it was also a big week for Lightning: real-word asynchronous payments, new stats, a security disclosure, and much more! Let's dive in! Ecosystem Big Announcement: DLC Markets Last
Hey there, Lightninger! Last week was Taproot-y, last week was DLC-y, last week was swap-y. Ready to learn more? Grab a drink - hotty, coldy, I'll let you settle that - and follow me for another weekly! Ecosystem New OpenSats Lightning Grant OpenSats awarded a Long Term Support (LTS) grant
Hey there, Lightninger! You may have already seen it but we recently shared an updated graph of the trading volume on LN Markets since its inception. As you can see, it took us 3 years to reach 1 billion dollars of trading volume, and only 3 months to crush the
Hey there, Lightninger! Last sunday was the Lightning white paper anniversary: already 8 years that this historic piece was published! But that's not the only interesting thing that happened last week, so grab a hot drink and let's rewind the latest Lightning developments together! Ecosystem Decentralized Robosats Is Coming Robosats
Hey there, Lightninger! Welcome to the very first issue of Latest Strikes on this side of New Year's Eve! I know it's been a while since the last issue, but that's because we (at LN Markets) are cooking you some very special treats for this new year. Don't worry though,
Hey there, Lightninger! Welcome to a special edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the latest news in the Lightning Network ecosystem. Why is it special? Well, as you may have noticed, there was no Latest Strikes issue last week. Instead, this one will cover the last two
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
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 WoS Referral System
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
This post will be technical, there will be maths! Do you have time ahead to focus? If yes, then grab your mug of tea or coffee and enjoy the ride!
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
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