Meetup 3 | July 13, 2022

CLN = Blockstream’s Core Lightning LND = Lightning Labs’ Lightning Network Daemon

Spec Activity
- Dusty executes the First mainnet spliced channel
  - prezzo from btcpp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3YpbRzwWj4&t=26s
- Wait 12 blocks before forgetting a channel https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1004
- Give a grace period for old channel_update parameters https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/1001
- Denial of Service protect for onion messages https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-June/003623.html
- instagibbs put up a project tracker for the eltoo project he’s working on https://github.com/users/instagibbs/projects/1/views/1
Inbound routing fees
- LND: Pull Request #6703
- Joost’s mailing list post https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-July/003643.html
https://github.com/benthecarman/translnd new node pubkey for every invoice
- eat your heart out Tony G https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2022-June/003599.html
- Spec suggestion to hide channel_updates for aliased scid’s https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/999/commits/9f1a704790e055098ae5dbebfaf964c66d02c667
Bottlepay adds stateless invoices to multiplexer https://twitter.com/bottlepay/status/1544361781514145793?s=21&t=XVfc7380naOTz6v7SOJxaw
- Multiplexer https://twitter.com/bottlepay/status/1519745064267825152?s=21&t=XVfc7380naOTz6v7SOJxaw
- stateless invoices https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-September/003236.html
- (Joost, who created stateless invoices, works at bottlepay)
LND: v0.15 out! https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-6-28-lnd0.15-launch/
- The ability to create and spend from Taproot addresses
- Database space reduction of ~95% by reducing state stored in revocation logs for new data (is this the move to sqlite3?)
- 50 contributors (anyone local?)
- MuSig2 experimental support 🔥
look ma no (http) server needed: https://github.com/jb55/lnlink.org
- CLN: Built in Commando ‣
LND: has Lightning Node Connect web (npm package now avails) https://github.com/lightninglabs/lnc-web
Zeroconf
- merged into CLN ‣
- What are zeroconf channels? https://twitter.com/JohnCantrell97/status/1542196189319335936?s=20&t=uSgkQaaG6-MX4HyExEY-wQ
App-y Things
- LN Markets 2.0
- “Podcasting 2.0” covered by 9-5 Mac (streaming sats for podcasts, e.g. Fountain)
- Blue Wallet supports LNURLauth
- New Project : LNCal allows you to earn bitcoin when people book time on your calendar!
- Robosats (no-KYC TOR lightning based fiat onramp) launched on I2P and raised max trade value to 3M sats
Sphinx Chat launches independent Validated Lightning Signer device: “the first release of a device that lets you run a hosted lightning node while keeping the private keys truly private” https://twitter.com/sphinx_chat/status/1545051116127150085
Zeus 0.6.5 adds support for sending and receiving to Taproot addresses, ben carman now a contributor and much more!
nifty did a prezzo/intro to CLN on Friday as part of the Base58 ‘n Coding summer series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCbh2IgjlI
- Replit for getting started running a CLN node https://replit.com/@base58/Base58-A-Tour-Of-Core-Lightning?v=1
- Fedimint this friday! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/base58-n-coding-tickets-377639097707