Ecosystem Developer Grants This week we saw two new grants going to Lightning builders! Superlunar issued a grant to Dusty Daemin to support his work on Lightning, and notably splicing. Okcoin is now sponsoring Johns Beharry鈥檚 work of promoting Lightning projects and experiments through BoltFun. Legends Of Lightning Update Speaking of BoltFun, I thought it would be interesting to see how the LegendsOfLightning tournament has evolved since we last took a look....
Specs & Implems Da Bug (do not eat it) This week was the scene of a fun (and overall not so harmful) bug in LND. The bug came from btcd, a Bitcoin library on which LND relies to parse new blocks. The library still had a reminiscence of SegWit V0, in the form of a check on the witness size (eg size of signatures, although it鈥檚 not strictly equivalent) of Bitcoin transactions....
Geia sas! Welcome to this 5th issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of what鈥檚 new in the Lightning realm. Zip up your jacket, tuck your chin into the collar, and enter the storm with me! Wallets & Tools Alby Release (and Nostr soon) The Alby team landed a new release, which improves the LNBits integration and allows users to connect from their own LNDHub instance (or the instance of a friend), and not just your BlueWallet Lightning account....
Yo! Welcome to this 4th edition of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of Lightning news. Grab a drink, and let鈥檚 dive in! Ecosystem Some Numbers for the Nerds Kevin Rooke opened the ball of statistics this week with an interesting comparison of exchange nodes capacity and its evolution over the last 30 days. We can see that the 13 exchanges considered in this analysis saw a collective increase of their public capacity of 349 BTC, which is a 20% increase!...
Sup! Welcome to this new edition of Latests Strikes, your weekly recap of what the cool kids talk about when they discuss the Lightning Network. Fasten your seatbelt and put on your helmet as we drive irresponsibly fast into the storm! Ecosystem BitGo goes long on Lightning Crypto custodian BitGo unveiled the integration of Lightning into their custody products. Basically, BitGo will take care of everything on behalf of their customer, which can replace all the Lightning stuff with API calls....