News

• Coinbase commits to adding Lightning
• Voltage’s new LSP, Flow 2.0, provides enhanced privacy for recipients, as senders only see a Voltage pubkey - think VPN like privacy benefits, as utilized by Mutiny Wallet.
  • https://voltage.cloud/blog/voltage-announcements/introducing-flow-v2/
  • https://blog.mutinywallet.com/enhanced-lightning-privacy-for-mutiny-users/
  • Also uses private channels with SCID aliases, breaking the on-chain link
  • Privacy enhancement, but could also be used to queue offline payments, e.g. Zaplocker
  • Note: private VPN, Obscura, announced https://twitter.com/carl_dong/status/1707089015604670770
• Human Rights Foundation donates 19 BTC to projects, including:
  • to Gee Deer for his work on Bitcoin Core and Lightning native stablecoins using Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs). Gee's proposed stablecoin will attempt to minimize counterparty risk and increase potential decentralization of US dollar instruments.
  • Revolutionary cypherpunk D++ for her work on FOSS projects and worldwide educational activities. By offering talks and workshops at conferences in the Global South, hosting a free Bitcoin bootcamp and continuing maintaining Bitcoin Core and other FOSS projects, D++ will utilize funding to carry out worldwide Bitcoin education.
• 10101.finance
  • Announces perpetual futures via DLCs on lightning
• ZBD + Pleblab Hackathon at TabConf
  • MutiMint - Pay Lightning invoices from Fedimint
  • Satogram - Send your message to (most of) the lightning network!
  • https://lnplay.live - Rent a Private Lightning Network
  • Great showing by Austin Bitcoiners / PlebLab
• Former Paypal President David Marcus, now running Lightspark, says he wants to dedicate his life to improving Bitcoin + Lightning
• Lightning Retail Payments live at McDonalds in El Salvador

Notable Releases and Updates

• CLBOSS back in action (compatible w current node versions) https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/c-lightning/2023-September/000239.html
• SimLN for realisticly simulating Lightning Network activity

Node Runner News

• AMBOSS launches Hydro
  • https://twitter.com/tonyioi/status/1704246683717054483

For Builders + Creators

• Lightning Prisms CLN Plugin
  • $prism Nostr Prism mechanism

Spec News + Write-Ups

• Proposal for node management via HSM https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004084.html
• Concrete PTLC investigation https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-September/004088.html
• LDK
  • getting closer to BOLT12 offers
    • merging outbound PaymentId
    • https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2371
    • getting closer to route blinding (e.g. 1, 2)
      • https://voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-network-faq/what-are-blinded-paths-and-how-do-they-work/
  • features for improving payment reliability
    • Pre-flight probing: https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2534
    • Non-linear capacity estimation: https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/2547
• Proposal to scale Lightning with “simple covenants” - like Ark, but off-chain
  • https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-September/021941.html