Adewale Ijalana·2d agoHow Much Bitcoin Do You Have on That Side? Probing Privacy in the Lightning NetworkIntroduction
Gabriel Isuekebho·5d agoHow Lightning Picks a Route: Fees, Liquidity, Mission Control, and Multi-Path Payments (MPP)The follow-up to “Understanding Lightning’s Multi-Hop Payments from the Terminal”
Abdulhakeem Abdulazeez·Nov 2PTLCsA core function of Lightning is the ability to send bitcoins across channels offchain and HTLCs (Hashed and Time Lock Contracts) are what…
Jemimah Nagasha·Oct 24Using Polar’s MCP to Build a Lightning Testing Environment with AIA while back, I wrote about setting up a Lightning sandbox with Polar on Linux.
InCoinmonksbyMuhammad Azhar·Oct 14BDK’s Electrum txid check took 171 days to ship, and 5 of the 9 crates using it can’t get itThe fix is one comparison. Only bdk_electrum 0.24.1 has it, there’s no fixed 0.23, and LDK Node shipped on 0.23 eight hours later
InHYDRANETbyHYDRANET·Oct 12Hydranet Monthly Recap #50 — September 2026September was a month we have been working toward for a very long time. Hydranet is now live on mainnet.
InCoinmonksbyMuhammad Azhar·Oct 10Core Lightning’s readonly rune could read bitcoind’s RPC password until 26.06.9The code to hide config secrets from read-only callers landed in 2024 and was used for one option. Four more waited 25 months
Muhammad Azhar·Oct 9Electrum’s channel backups were missing one key for 422 days. 200,228 sats can’t be movedBackups from BIP39 and imported-xprv wallets could ask for a force close they couldn’t sweep. I read the fix and the stuck output
Muhammad Azhar·Oct 5lnd’s master branch says 0.20.5 stopped opening legacy channels. The 0.20.5 release still doesAn empty channel_type in open_channel still gets you a legacy channel on the 0.20 line. Only 0.21.4 has the fix, and its backport was…
Kamal Aliyu·Oct 3Why Lightning Can Work Without Trusted IntermediariesHow payment channels, revocation, HTLCs, and routing allow Bitcoin payments to move through intermediaries without giving them custody.
