> I'd say you have the statechain model *until* you get the confirmation, then the model is closer to a DryjaPoon LSP than a statechain, until the expiration time. But yes, I agree the Ark model will be really interesting with channels on t

~13 days ago, someone's anchor sweeping bot consolidated 5040 lightning anchors in a single block across three enormous transactions.

assuming two anchors per channel, that suggests 2520 channels force-closed simultaneously ~24 hours prior.

Discussion of a variant of the previously-disclosed excessive failback exploit in LND.

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.

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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…