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By publicly exploiting a bug on Lightning that could have put users’ funds at risk, the developer was acting in the best interests of Bitcoin node runners.

The nature of open-source distributed systems leaves some vulnerabilities open to exploitation, but should bugs be exploited publicly or disclosed in private?

A bug resulting in the stalling of LND and btcd nodes had minimal impact — but it could have been much worse.

Now called Core Lightning, Blockstream’s Lightning Network implementation seeks to be Bitcoin’s interoperable, specification-focused standard.

A cohort of Lightning developers held a roundtable discussion at Bitcoin 2022 on the differences between node options available to users.

Social network Zion onboards users to the Lightning Network to free them from big tech censorship, revenue restrictions and data collection.

Sparkswap, Lightning Loop, Satoshi’s Games and More

This week in the Lightning Network brings Zap’s first fully operational version, Lightning Labs’ new LND release and Casa’s sat-stacking mobile app.

Elizabeth Stark is the cofounder and CEO of Lightning Labs, the California-based startup spearheading development of the lnd Lightning implementation.

Lightning Labs is bringing their Lightning wallet to mobile with the launch of their iOS and Android apps.