Latest Strikes 31 - Apr. 3rd-9th 2023

Annnnd it's Friday again! We'll try to not make an habit out of it and come back to a more regular schedule, but I'm hearing later is better that never. Anyway, what did the Lightning world cook for us last week? Mutiny raised funds to develop their privacy focused Lightning

Latest Strikes 30 - Mar. 27th-Apr. 2nd 2023

Friday it is! Never was a Latest Strikes issue published this late in the week, but here we are at last! With the release of a new major LND version, an innovative way of connecting nostr and Lightning, and Route Blinding finally making it into the specification, last week was

Latest Strikes 29 - Mar. 20th-26th 2023

Buongiorno! Welcome to the 29th issue of Latest Strikes, published from Tuscany, Italy, where we're attending the Tuscany Lightning Summit. But more on that next week. For now, let's wrap up last week together, from lightning accounting to privacy-preserving LNURL servers! Ecosystem Lightning Accounting BoltObserver published a blog post on

Latest Strikes 28 - Mar. 13th-19th 2023

Hello Strikers! Welcome to this 28th issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly dose of the hottest news and updates from the Lightning Network ecosystem. Whether you're a seasoned Bitcoin veteran or a curious newcomer, we try our best to make this newsletter as useful and approachable as possible, and make

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Tech

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

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

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

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

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!

🎙️ 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!

🎙️ 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!

🎙️ 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