Come wrap and peel the onion with me in my latest blog post on Lightning Onion Packet Construction ⚡️ Beware: here be diagrams 😈 https://t.co/Xp2beg9FCd #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork

Lightning is NOT just fast payments ⚡ With Lightning you can build: - APIs - Micropayment-powered apps - Pay-per-action tools - Bots - Streaming money apps - Non-custodial wallets - New routing tools Lightning = a full development playground. The bootcamp will show you how.

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1/7: Lightning Node Operators say they spend too much time researching which nodes to open channels towards. So, in Lightning Terminal, we introduced AutoOpen, a tool to automatically open channels designed to improve betweenness-centrality and lower costs.  🧵⚡️

Few people know they can use crypto to make everyday purchases. At @PayPal, we’re committed to revolutionizing commerce globally—and one way we are doing that is by bridging the gap between digital currencies and everyday transactions. With PayPal, consumers can seamlessly use

i had so much fun at @btcplusplus in brazil this past week; it was the biggest in-person hackathon we've ever had with over 85 devs participating on 25 project submissions big thank you to our sponsors @NYDIG @HRF @_WolfNYC @Vinteum_org @btrust_builders @base58btc @satoshilabs

PSA: If you ever had channels with LNBIG in the early days (2018-2021), read this! If you think you still have sats in such channels that you couldn't recover (e.g. your node broke down, no channel backup), there now might be a way. You only require your seed. Try...

Come hangout in Florianopolis, Brasil (Feb 19 - 22, 2025) with @_AlexLewin, @cguida6, @ellemouton, @negrunch, @jaonoctus, @msgilligan, @buckeye_bitcoin, @ngoline, @niftynei, @bins_btc, @super_testnet and @tonklaus. Big thank you to our sponsors: @HRF, @vinteum_org,@base58btc and

Introducing Lark. Lark is a Java port of HWI, a library used by many wallets to communicate over USB with with hardware wallets like @Coldcardwallet, @Ledger, @Trezor, @BitBoxSwiss and @BlockstreamJade.

Mind blowing stuff! 🤯🤯🤯 Now, with the latest version of @blinkbtc, you do NOT need a second app to shop with #Bitcoin at @PicknPay! @MoneyBadgerPay have integrated their QR code scanner directly into the Blink wallet! This is permissionless innovation. 👇👇👇

Yesterday Elle Mouton (@ElleMouton) and Andrew Toth (@andrew_s_toth) joined @murchandamus & @bitschmidty to discuss Newsletter #326: - Updates to the v1.75 LN gossip proposal - Draft BIP for sending silent payments w/PSBTs - Stack Exchange Q&A Catch up:

1/ As Bitcoin continues to grow, so does the pool of talented individuals contributing to critical codebases. However, full-time employment opportunities for these individuals remain limited.

Come and hear all the latest Gossip 😉⚡️

Elle Mouton (@ElleMouton) posted to Delving Bitcoin a description of several proposed changes to the new channel announcements protocol that will support advertising simple taproot channels... https://t.co/01blpS8D2X

The MuSig2 🎶 module has been merged into libsecp256k1. This marks significant progress in the real-world deployment of MuSig2 as it'll be available to all existing projects using libsecp256k1 with the next release. Example usage: https://t.co/U89wxqrnU9 The module has been

🎉🎉🎉Finally! MuSig2 was merged into libsecp256k1, almost 5 years after the publication of the first paper draft. 🎉🎉🎉

What's @lopp's favorite on-chain #Bitcoin wallet? 🤔 Find out in the first installment of our impromptu #BitcoinWalletTalk series! 🔐 Got a favorite wallet we should include next time? Let us know! 🚀✨

big news 🗞️ today: BOLT12 has officially been merged into the bolts repo and is now part of the official lightning specification!! ⚡️ currently three implementations support it: core-lightning, LDK, and eclair/phoenix this is the first new BOLT to be added since 2017!

If you are new to the technical side of Bitcoin/Lightning below are some great resources to help you level up your tech skills. Bitcoin resources: Mastering Bitcoin: https://t.co/nWfpleYLuo (free) Bitcoin for Developers(via @saylordotorg): https://t.co/yL4Eju7Kjk (free)

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