Discussion of a bug in Eclair's preimage handling that can be exploited to steal funds

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⚛️🟠 A dynamic one hour session on how quantum computing could impact Bitcoin’s security and future 🔐🧠

🎤 Paul Sztorc (Truthcoin) kicks things off with a brief…

The Stroom Network presents an interesting proposition: staking your bitcoin on the Lightning network, and earning yield from the transaction fees that routing nodes are collecting. To better explain how this system works, Slava and Ros join the show!

Time…

If you guys hate Lightning, this interview is kind of a masterclass in exposing how much of a ghost town it is.

1. These guys have 20 million dollars in liquidity, but only routed 65k transactions (so they make $7k/month at best). Their business model is…

Lightning Network support in Exodus has ended.

@FastOhSoFast Stop lying, please, Phil. Since 2018 I'm using #Bitcoin with the Lightning Network protocol. I literally never opened nor closed a LN channel during one of my 500-1,000 LN transactions over the years.

1 satoshi or 0 satoshi is what is charged…

@thekaspaonion @gladstein I used lightning exclusively over the summer and it was a mixed experience. Got 1 channel closed on me. Bunch of failed payments.

@w_s_bitcoin 1, but it got cut because of the breakout in Spain. And when I came back to where I have the node 2 weeks after they had closed my ln channel. And I don't want to pay 20€ to reopen it if it can go off any moment

i've ran a lightning node for 5 years and i've never had an issue or major problem. i think lightning is easy.

i also have on-boarded thousands of users that are not technical like me. i've on-boarded people in various locations around the world.

my uses…

Why did olympus force-close a channel that i have previously purchased from them? I am using the mobile android Zeus wallet. [23 comments]

Heads up for anyone using Exodus Lightning wallet.

@bluewalletio closed their channel and took all of my sats because I wasn’t aware they were discontinuing their service.

Criminals

Quoting Be Free | Pay with Crypto (@BeFree_Crypto)

Exodus Wallet abandons…

Imagine hating on L3 when non-custodial LN is utterly still broken.

Read the room.

Cashu pilled another uber driver. You can't do that with lightning. 😉

TLDR: I'm thankful for all you nerds out there making it so I can accept lightning payments with ease. 🫂💜 Hard truths not many will admit: LN in its current state is completely useless for regular people. The fact that you need to

My first attempt at a bitcoin lightning payment with a @Square merchant was unsuccessful 😕

Walked up to pay, scanned the @CashApp QR code expecting to be prompted with the option to pay in USD or bitcoin, but after quickly tapping through the screens, USD…

Discussion of a DoS vulnerability in LND's gossiper.

i don't know if this can handle a zapathon. i guess we'll find out.

Paid for dinner tonight at Pitaville I Naperville with ₿ on square terminal using my #cashu wallet. The ⚡️ transaction took approx 30s which felt like an eternity for the merchant and I. Thanks for accepting ⚡️₿ @pitaville