Announcing the first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning. 💱⚡ With Taproot Assets, users can make instant, low fee asset transfers, bringing trillions of stablecoin volume to #bitcoin. Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer. 🌐 lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-…

Roughly two years after the protocol was announced, Taproot Assets can now be transferred over Lightning channels and routed as Satoshis through the wider existing network. Super proud of all the work that went into this, huge team effort ⚡️🍠

This Thursday at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UTC, join us for an LN PR Review Club session! Keags will host PR #8512 by Olaoluwa Osuntokun on a new RBF-based coop channel close state machine. Join on Slack! (lightning.engineering/slack.html) lnd.reviews/8512

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a few weeks ago, 30+ Lightning devs+researchers from around the world gathered in Tokyo, Japan to discuss the current state and evolution of the LN protocol ⚡️ here's 7867 artisanal, human generated, LLM free words summarizing the various discussions: delvingbitcoin.org/t/ln-summit-20…

Just in: We've already processed more #Bitcoin orders through #LightningNetwork this year than in 2023! ⚡️ L2 adoption is going strong! 💪

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和老朋友们 Ajian Mi Zeng octoshi ⚡️ (₿/acc) YY 闲聊了获取比特币信息的渠道 TL;DR: shownotes 里的推荐链接（不过还是推荐完整收听🫡）

PSA: If you ever had channels with LNBIG in the early days (2018-2021), read this! If you think you still have sats in such channels that you couldn't recover (e.g. your node broke down, no channel backup), there now might be a way. You only require your seed. Try...

Our latest technical post is out! We discuss how we're using the MuSig2 protocol to improve Lightning Loop, our liquidity management service. 🔑🔄 New bitcoin technology now makes a better developer experience possible, with lower fees and faster swaps. Read more below. ⬇️

Yesterday Murch and Schmidty were joined by Matt Morehouse, Yong Yu (YY), Alejandro De La Torre (alejandro de la torre), Jan B, and Marco De Leon (Marco) to discuss Newsletter #346: - LND's dynamic feerate adjustment system - DMND launching pooled mining - Bitcoin

Maybe one day we will have reproducible implementations other than reproducible builds - we just write design manuals, tests it needs to pass, some benchmarks, and let your local LLM cook.

🎧 E17：和 YY Jeffrey Hu 围炉夜话 Bitcoin Core！ 👨‍💻Bitcoin Core 的开发面临怎样的困境？ 💊项目拆分是解决之道吗？ 👑如何看待开源开发中的仁慈独裁者？ 🎨多客户端为何重要？ 👇点击收听，深入这场关于 Bitcoin Core 的讨论与思考 open.spotify.com/episode/3WkXnj…

And v0.19.1 is out! github.com/lightningnetwo… This minor release improved p2p connection management and memory usage, def recommend!

Number go up technology🥳

lnd v0.19.2 has just been released! ⚡️github.com/lightningnetwo… ⚡️ this a bug fix release fixes: a bug related to missed spend notifications, a rare deadlock start up bug, a memory leak, resolves issue w/ connection limiting (increasing stability of p2p connections), and adds

Shout out to ziggie for making it happen🥳

The latest Lightning Lab 🧪 is out! We cover: ☀️ Summer of LN: 4M @square merchants coming, Block 9.7% BTC yield, 420 Steak 'n Shake locations, vibe coding 📈 1000xing from billions to trillions 🚀 Paolo Ardoino 🤖: USDT on LN scales, Speed Wallet ⚡️ bridged USDC, Botanix | Mainnet LIVE 🟢 mainnet