Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream recently rebranded its Lightning Network implementation from c-lightning to Core Lightning (CLN) in an attempt to highlight the project’s long-term focus on ...

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Lightning Network capacity has hit a new ATH of 5,606 BTC (~$500 million) as exchanges increase crypto adoption, with Amboss reporting a peak of 5,637 BTC.

Developers behind leading Lighting Network firms LND, CLN and LDK described how they’re pushing Layer 2 forward at Bitcoin 2022. The Lightning Network can't exactly fork like Bitcoin itself can, but ...

The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

The Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling platform, has a privacy problem. Receiving payments, requesting refunds, and opening and closing payment channels (connections between Lightning nodes) ...

A Twitter user by the name “Burak” (@brqgoo) sent a large swath of the Lightning Network into turmoil on Tuesday morning, when he allegedly created a non-standard Bitcoin transaction that prevented ...

An emergency update was released to all of Lightning Network's LND node operators on Nov. 1, after a critical bug caused LND nodes to fall out of sync chain. This was the second critical bug ...

This week’s newsletter describes a LN node payment proposal, Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and more. The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most important ...