Announcing the new litd, the all-in-one suite for LND devs! Get LIT with: 🖥️ Improved Terminal web UI 🧮 Tools to simplify liquidity & accounting 🤖 Automated routing fee management 🌐 Accounts: many users, one node Upgrade your Lightning stack today: lightning.engineering/posts/2023-04-…

With the latest Loop and litd, MuSig2/Taproot swaps for Loop In and Loop Out are now the default mode! No need for any flags or manual changes. Just update to the latest to improve your cost and privacy! 🔗⚡️🔁

Today we're excited to announce the newest version of Taproot Assets 🥕, a scalable protocol to issue assets on #bitcoin and Lightning. With this release, developers have the core set of features to bitcoinize the dollar in a chain-efficient manner! 💸⛓️ lightning.engineering/posts/2023-05-…

Back from the mountain 🧙‍♂️ Since our last release, it looks like the market is demanding some scaling solutions. This should cover a large set of current use cases - and please send us feedback on desired features etc.! 🎊

The idea that the government should decide who should receive a license to write code is as abhorrent as the government deciding who is allowed to write words or speak.

Open-sourced my #golang implementation of #miniscript. Find it here: github.com/benma/miniscri… It was the basis for this educational series on Miniscript: shiftcrypto.ch/blog/understan… kon thanks for prompting me to do this.

1/5: We’ve heard from the Lightning business/developer community that being able to manage multiple nodes in a single UX would be extraordinarily useful. So, with the latest Terminal Web release, we’ve rolled out Multi-Node UX⚡️ A very brief thread 🧵

1/10: Let’s talk about liquidity management for Lightning merchants. You’re a popular Lightning merchant selling lots of goods! Great success! 🎉 To continue growing, you are likely thinking about 2 things: 1️⃣maintaining quality inbound liquidity 2️⃣reducing hot wallet risk 🧵

Splendid, I've got another lnd PR merged. It allows to select specific utxos to fund a channel. If you want to get started and have this thrilling experience as well don't hesitate - check out beginner issues in the lnd repo. Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 github.com/lightningnetwo…

All cops are broadcasting Very entertaining talk at #cccamp23 about extracting and breaking the proprietary crypto in TETRA, a European standard that is the most widely used police radio communication system outside the U.S. media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-571…

Five years since the initial commit, we published the 100th release 🎉. A heartfelt thank you to all contributors and everyone else who has supported us on this journey! github.com/fort-nix/nix-b…

Are you a dev and excited about things like coin selection and PSBTs? Then check out my latest PR for lnd which should satisfy all your PSBT funding needs. The new mode for the FundPsbt RPC also fixes a couple of inaccuracies in fee estimation. github.com/lightningnetwo…

The talks I attended at ZK summit were mostly focused on Ethereum (and Bitcoin was only mentioned as outdated technology). So I was quite surprised when discussing with people that there is an enormous interest in Bitcoin, BitVM and OP_CAT (STARK verifier in script anyone?).

Utreexod beta release is now available at github.com/utreexo/utreex…! I’m currently syncing my archival node on a raspberry pi 0. Planning to use the built in electrum personal server support to connect my personal wallet. Please try it out and let me know what you think! For

Excited to introduce the Shielded CSV 🛡️: Private and Efficient Client-Side Validation! Big thanks to co-authors Liam Eagen and яobin linus. Check out the whitepaper: github.com/ShieldedCSV/Sh… tl;dr: "The most interesting thing you can do with BitVM" (яobin linus) 👉 First

the moment we've all been waiting for...USDT is coming back to Bitcoin via Taproot Assets!!! 🎉⛓️🌎💸 w/ stablecoins on the Lightning Network, the network evolves into an instant + low fee currency agnostic payments network, all backed by the Bitcoin Backbone of the network

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. ⬇️

I'm so proud + grateful to work with the amazing Lightning Loop team to make managing Lightning liquidity easier + cheaper. We've been leveraging cutting-edge Bitcoin tech to improve Lightning liquidity for years. h/t Andras Alex Bosworth kon Slyghtning Boris Nagaev

Announcing DahLIAS! 🎉 The first crypto protocol for full cross-input signature aggregation that allows reusing Bitcoin's curve secp256k1. ✅ 64B sigs ✅ Verify is ~2x faster than half-agg'd Schnorr sigs ✅ 2-round signing Kudos to the team: Tim Ruffing Yannick Seurin! 👇

Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS 🌺 A full aggregate signature scheme, that actually works on Bitcoin’s curve! New breakthrough from ncklr, Tim Ruffing, and Yannick Seurin 👇 bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/not-…