Discussion of an LND DoS vulnerability from large incoming message queues.

Discussion of weaknesses in LND's sweeper system that can be exploited to steal funds.

@bitkitwallet After the update my BitKit is stuck with the "Please wait for BitKit to connect to the payment network (~10 seconds)" message every time I try send a LN payment. I'm on iOS with a single LN payment channel between BitKit and my own hosted LND…

karma doesn't drive markets, but bitcoiners surely deserve it for

- embracing DATs
- idolizing a guy that sells $1 of Bitcoin for $1.50 to retail
- believing in fantasies like "the four year cycle" and "stock to flow" or an ever growing MSTR premium
-…

@ben_jerrell @CashApp That's good. No luck for me. Withdraw worked, LN not so much.

A little known tax-law that went into effect on January 1st is pushing custodial services out of the EU.

Talaia Labs' mission is to work on the security and privacy of the Lightning Network by providing an open-source and standardised implementation of Watchtowers.

THE CONSENSUS CONUNDRUM

Bitcoin faces a one-of-a-kind leadership problem

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A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it's scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more…

A few months ago I asked calle to sell me on using cashu. His argument was focused on better payment UX, which is compelling. But something I think is left out of the conversation around lightning/ecash is the funding UX, which can be very

Renting a RTX 3050 in the Czech Republic for 9 cents an hour to brute force possible values in a failed taproot asset lightning channel close in which 100,000 sats are stuck.

Just another day on the p2p digital cash front lines.

GM

There was a lot of fuss about sending a $1M Bitcoin transaction across the lightning network.

To be clear, I can just open a 10,000 BTC Lightning Channel to you and zap you 10,000 BTC. It works.

What wouldn't work is if I tried to zap you 10,000 BTC…

Kraken has started charging a 0.3% fee for accepting Lightning payments.

This is a bad move imo.