
Olaoluwa Osuntokun
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Half-man, half-beef. UCSB Computer Science MS+BS. CTO at @lightning labs. Bitcoin · Applied Cryptography · Distributed Systems · #golang · DC42612E89237182
Joined May 2012
today we're excited to announce the mainnet release of end-to-end Taproot Assets integration w/ the Lightning Network! 💱🌐⚡. with this release, the Lightning Network evolves into a global currency agnostic payment layer, all backed by #Bitcoin Backbone of the network 🚊.
Announcing the first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning. 💱⚡. With Taproot Assets, users can make instant, low fee asset transfers, bringing trillions of stablecoin volume to #bitcoin. Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer. 🌐.
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@paddyucl @ProfFaustus @AriDavidPaul @starkness i miss the REAL Satoshi. the str8 cypherpunk Satoshi. the designer of Script Satoshi. the pro open source Satoshi. i hate the fake satoshi 👿. the bad mood Faketoshi. the always rude Faketoshi. spaz in the news Faketoshi!. i miss the chill Satoshi. chop up some code Satoshi.
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the moment we've all been waiting for. USDT is coming back to Bitcoin via Taproot Assets!!! 🎉⛓️🌎💸. w/ stablecoins on the Lightning Network, the network evolves into an instant + low fee currency agnostic payments network, all backed by the Bitcoin Backbone of the network.
Today we're announcing that Tether is coming to bitcoin and Lightning! 💸⚡. With the security and decentralization of bitcoin and the speed and scalability of Lightning, USDT will bring hundreds of millions of users and trillions in volume. It all comes back to bitcoin.
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AMP: Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning. A common Lightning question is: “I have five $2 channels, can I *atomically* send a single $6 payment?”. For those that didn't know, the answer is YES! We (@bitconner and I) describe the *how*. ⚡️.
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IN 2023, THE BOTS PAY YOU! ⚡️🤖. today we're releasing a new L402 specification, along side @LangChainAI powered tools that enable AI Agents to traverse L402 APIs (HTTP 402 pay-per call APIs over Lightning), and also directly hold+manage Bitcoin via @OpenAI function calls.
Announcing a new set of tools to build Lightning⚡and #bitcoin-powered AI products for a global audience. Using L402, a standard for API authentication with LN payments, and @langchainAI, a simplified AI app framework, we are opening up #AI4All! 🤖🌎.
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I'm excited announce the first mainnet *multi-hop asset* payment w/ Taproot Asset channels! 🥕⚡️. in this demo, we have a topology of: . Zane -(beefbux)> Yara -(BTC)> Carol -(beefbux)> Dave. Dave makes an invoice to recv beefbux (denominated in BTC!) w/ Yara using her beebux to
excited to announce that I’ve just made the first mainnet *asset* keysend payment w/ Taproot Asset channels! ⚡️🥕. below you can see me sending beefbux across nodes instantly. the demo uses a dev version of litd (Lightning Terminal Daemon) that packages lnd+tapd ⛓️. ⬇️
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@karpathy the future is here, but not yet evenly distributed: using the Lightning Network, today we can programmatically send values as small as $0.00006 over the Internet instantly, avoiding all the friction that comes w/ high txn costs w/ traditional payments.
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the mad lads at @ZeroSync_ have done it! 🪄. ~instant light client sync. they've created a batched/recursive/incremental STARK proof for Bitcoin's block headers: a single 1.4KB proof (independent of # of headers) to verify all headers, PoW, etc 🤯.
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@cryptograffiti @starkness they gave us some random award, literally unprompted, zero prior comms. no one at Lightning Labs works with, nor is affiliation with the WEF. after seeing all the uproar about this, seems all the WEF needs to do in order to sow discord in the community update their website?.
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With #twitter280 it's now possible to transmit Bitcoin block headers in full!. 0000002059bc4f5f69e0a45938b5bff0e48cacf99167841144a82700000000000000000090ddf4dd0c54a9a66226bb5e956810f0e2e0332411ebcc67a6a11c057f8bbda0d59e045abdc1001868602340. #doubleshatopeepthezeroes.
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@elonmusk @BTCsessions @TeslaGong @wintonARK this could be us but you trippin: . EV charging w/ payments streamed in real-time at a 1 sat per watt-hour. works today w/ the Model 3 (link has vid of live demo), hire my mans Andy Schroder so we can get this ting poppin ⚡️.
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Excited to announce that I'll be working on Mastering the Lightning Network along side @aantonop and @renepickhardt!!! . ⚡️️.
Huge announcement! Our co-founder & CTO, @roasbeef, announced "Mastering the Lightning Network" at the Blockchain Training Conference today, alongside @aantonop & @renepickhardt! ⚡️📖. Eagerly awaiting its release and all future Lightning developers! 🚀.
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@MichaelLevin @arush @guggero @googlechrome exactly! all part of the master plan 😈⚡️. LSAT+Aperture+(lnd+neutrino+wasm)+chrome extension and we have the new Lightning Native web . no more pay walls, no more passwords, no more privacy invasive adds:
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@ProfFaustus @AriDavidPaul @starkness 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨.TWITTER-SPHERE PSA.🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨. @ProfFaustus is a liar, fraud, impersonator, and manipulator. Do not be fooled by his technobabble!!!.
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Loop! There it is!!! . ⚡️🔁.
Announcing the alpha release of Lightning Loop, a non-custodial service that makes it easier to receive #bitcoin on Lightning. With Loop, users can get inbound capacity and withdraw from Lightning while keeping channels open. 🔁. Read more and try it out:
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mining pools are starting to offer Lightning-based payouts! . by paying out over LN, they can safe space in their produced blocks as all the numerous smaller payouts can instead be executed off-chain, not to mention the floor on payout size can be lowered.
Bitcoin transaction fees are high lately, so this is the time to start using Lightning Network or LN! ⚡️.We now official support LN for all users. You can deposit or withdraw without any fees! Learn how 👇. #Bitcoin .#LightningNetwork
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Continuing our blog post series on the infrastructure we're building at Lightning Labs and how this impacts the end UX of Lightning, @bvu explains neutrino (BIP 157+158) a new light client for Bitcoin we designed (along with outside contributors!) for LN:
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> is a programmable VPS platform where you can have any instance for 66 sats per hour. with⚡️, developers no longer need to give away email, credit card information, or other sensitive information for API access . just stream some sats n go 😎🏄🏾 #bitcoin.
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2020 is gonna be. lit ⚡️
Bitfinex to support deposits and withdrawals on Lightning Network.@bitfinex .
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sooo excited to finally release the first version of taproot assets that supports Bitcoin's mainnet! . tapd v0.3.0-alpha, works w/ the neutrino light client, so users don't need to maintain 0.5 TB+ of data to be able to verify and interact with assets 😎.
Announcing the first mainnet release of Taproot Assets 🥕, a protocol for assets on #bitcoin and Lightning. With this release, developers can issue financial assets on-chain in a scalable manner. 💱. Today marks a new era of multi-asset bitcoin. 🌅.
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L402 can also help to increase the accessibility of the latest n greatest AI models for the rest of the world 🌎. with LN, creators can create applications that monetize from day one, and are able to reach a global audience . check out this demo from @kodylow built on @ChatbotUI
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#bitcoin, the Internet's native currency will be the currency of choice for AI agents. the L402 protocol will be their programmatic gateway to the world's paid APIs (and commerce w/ other agents!): 🤖 to 🤖 💸 via⚡️->🌐 💻.
Co-founder of the technology giant Palantir, @JTLonsdale says, “There is one type of #bitcoin buyer that could be very important, AI agents. AI will use crypto to coordinate”.
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it's alive!!!! . prob the coolest LN graph viz I've seen so far #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork.
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@ProfFaustus @AriDavidPaul @starkness 1. LN increases utility of BTC, allows new apps/use-cases. Cost to set up node is low, why wouldn't they run nodes? Pools can do incremental payouts over channels: hashers get paid in real-time, saves on-chain space (no more massive payout txns) and makes payouts more private.
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locked in at the CS:GO @MintGox esports competition! ⚡🎮 #Bitcoin . Team @lightning labs advanced to the semi-finals! Let's win some sats! 🤘.
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the madlads at @StarkWareLtd have done it! 😎. picking up from where @ZeroSync_ left off (SPV verification), the Shinigami project seeks to create STARK proofs capable of verifying Bitcoin Script _execution_. in the future, you'll be able to verify a single recursive proof that.
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At Lightning Labs, we've asked ourselves those same questions, which is why we've created a new protocol standard (LSAT) for payments+auth for the web using the Internet's native currency: Bitcoin, and Lightning, the fastest way to move bitcoin around:
The web is 25 years old, and signing up for and paying for things is still broken. Why do you have to create an account and make up a password? Why do you have to type in a number off a card in your pocket? There is a big opportunity here that will seem obvious in retrospect.
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Lightning User Experience: A Day in the Life of Carol. @bvu walks-through @Lightning Lab's vision for the UX on Lightning once the initial core infrastructure for the network has been built out!.
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16 months, 33 commits, and 419 review comments later…MY SEGWIT PR HAS BEEN MERGED INTO BTCD!!! #bitcoin #opensource.
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now *this* is next level: Cairo (custom programming language for von Neumann STARK VM) code for Bitcoin transaction validation. still a WIP, can now fully validate block header consensus rules. super dope as can be used today for stuff like light client sync or btc contracts.
Thanks to @duganist we know have the validation of p2pkh transactions in Khepri, the #Bitcoin node implementation in @CairoLang .Looking for builders to contribute on the project. Lot of stuff to implement such as Utreexo for example.
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sooo excited to finally the launch of the new version of Lightning Terminal! ⚡️. this new version is powered by Lightning Node Connect which uses PAKE+Noise+WASM to allow users to securely connect their node to a web page using a short pairing phrase:
Lightning Terminal just got upgraded, now users can interact with their node on the web! ⚡🕸️. Featuring:. 🔒 Secure, private web connect.✅ Node quality recs.🔁 Liquidity services for #bitcoin. Connect your Lightning node today!.
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SF Bitcoin devs ecosystem on the cusp of a revival 🌉. I can feeeeeeeel it . #CanYouFeelItMrKrabs?
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for ppl confused about tx conf delays:. * txns can be dropped from the mempoool in high fee periods . * if it gets dropped, then one needs to manually increase the fee (RBF). * explorers don't show definitive info of initial broadcast time nor the OG fee used for broadcast.
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what if I told you. that LLM platform APIs don't need to rate limit for paying customers . what if. you could simply pay them directly using HTTP 402 and a low cost decentralized open access payment network, all 100% programmatic . L402 is the 🔑:
Wowww we're already hitting rate limits on @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI from the Arc Max launch. Can anyone please help?!.
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Announcing lndmon, a drop-in monitoring solution for your lnd node! ⚡️🔎📊. lndmon is a project by @vallywal that combines Prometheus+Grafana+docker-compose to give node operators one command they can execute to export+visualize metrics from their lnd node.
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wanna try out ChatGPT, but don't want to give up your phone number? Fear not for, Lightning has you covered 👇🏾⚡.
Solution for registering on OpenAI (for using ChatGPT) anonymously: sms4sats. Comments: Link: #StackerNews is like Hacker News but it pays you #bitcoin.
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Announcing lnd v0.11-beta! this is our first release w/ @bitconner as co-maintainer of lnd 🎉. we strongly recommend that all users update as it contains an important bug fix for spurious force closes! . full release notes: ️.
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continuing Taproot Asset channel szn. 🌻. I'm excited announce the first mainnet asset swap w/ Taproot Asset channels! 🥕⚡️. in this demo, we've simplified our topology to: .Zane -[beefbux channel]-> Yara -[BTC Channel]-> Carol. so we only have a single asset channel
I'm excited announce the first mainnet *multi-hop asset* payment w/ Taproot Asset channels! 🥕⚡️. in this demo, we have a topology of: . Zane -(beefbux)> Yara -(BTC)> Carol -(beefbux)> Dave. Dave makes an invoice to recv beefbux (denominated in BTC!) w/ Yara using her beebux to
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reproducible binaries for lnd v0.15.2 hot fix release are now available: . we appreciate your patience as we worked to fix+release the issue 🙏🏾.
lnd v0.15.2 has just been tagged: this is a hotfix release that only contains the bug fix applied on top of v0.15.1 . once the CI pipeline we use to build cross platform binaries + upload artefacts is finish, reproducible binaries will be available.
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just snagged the last ticket (at this tier) via LN!. the $400 payment (600k sats) was completed in 1.5 seconds w/ a 0.07% fee (7 bps, $0.29 actual), routed thru the network via 3 hops ⚡️. but noooo "LN is dead" 😱 /s. the only other payment system on *Earth* that would've been.
we're almost sold out of the second to last ticket tier for @btcplusplus!!. Save yourself some sats and snag one of the last ones at this price!.
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@KTrzeszczkowski @moxie EVM chains gave up on working light clients long ago, due to poorly designed p2p protocols, and the additional bandwidth strain of bloated chain headers + block time granularity of seconds. bitcoin's sane parametrization enables proper client validation:
@MichaelLevin @arush @guggero @googlechrome exactly! all part of the master plan 😈⚡️. LSAT+Aperture+(lnd+neutrino+wasm)+chrome extension and we have the new Lightning Native web . no more pay walls, no more passwords, no more privacy invasive adds:
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some quick maths from @bitconner on optimizing a quadratic factor out of our Sphinx packet construction: new optimized code: results in an order of magnitude speed up during ⚡️routing packet construction!.
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with our release of Lightning Terminal, there's never been an easier way to manage the bandwidth of your channels! ⚡️🔁. use Loop Out to send your recv'd funds on-chain to cold storage, freeing up your channels to receive more . use Loop In to top-off your channels to send more.
It's LiT! 🔥 Announcing Lightning Terminal, the home of products that help you make the most of your #bitcoin on Lightning. ⚡. Our initial release features a user interface for Loop that makes it easier to manage liquidity. Learn more and try LiT out:
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drink menu at @lightning lab's The Decade of Lightning party (hosted by @craft_ventures) . I've been sippin' on The Pass the Torch myself 🥃⚡
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Based on the information we've been provided with so far, it appears that this was an instance of the user's machine being compromised, leading to `lncli` commands directly executed on the root user (all channels abandoned). This does not appear to be an lnd specific issue.
🚨 If you are running LND older than 0.18.5 and/or Lightning Terminal older than 0.14.1, stop what you are doing and upgrade immediately. Thieves are draining funds using exploits that were fixed in these releases. 🚨.
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an example of a primitive for Bitcoin contract design enabled by taproot: ring sigs over the UTXO set 🐉. #bitcoin.
Here's a proof that I own a taproot output on signet height 14344 without revealing which one it is. This makes use of bare pubkeys in taproot and libsecp256k1-zkp ring signatures. Pushed the PoC code here
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new paper (collab w/ @snyke+@rusty_twit) describing a simple way to construct channels w/ symmetric state on Bitcoin:
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;@SatoshisGames does LN native account creation correctly: no email+pass for sign up, accounts cost 1k sat (built in sybil resistance).
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@rogerkver this month marks an entire year that i’ve been testing+reviewing segwit, no other malleability fix is as mature or vetted.
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