⚡DailyZap: OpenSats Grants! OpenSats distributed the first wave of Bitcoin grants, which will support various open-source projects and educational initiatives. Among the grantees are some prominent Lightning-related projects, such as: * Bolt12 for LND, which aims to bring Bolt12 Offers to LND ; * Dusty Daemon's work on splicing ; * Raspiblitz, a DIY node stack which enables users to easily run a Lightning node on a Raspberry Pi ; * BTCPay Server, the open source payment processor, with full Lightning support ; * Mutiny Wallet, a browser-first self-custodial Lightning wallet ; * a LNURL-Auth provider for the popular Next-auth library ; * Lightning-native Chaumian e-cash solution Cashu ; * lnproxy, a tool that helps you conceal your node's public key from the sender when receiving money over Lightning ; * BlixtWallet, a self-custodial Lightning wallet for Android, iOS and macOS.

⚡DailyZap: The Rise of Lightning Service Providers Synonym published an interesting blog post on the subject of Lightning Service Providers (LSPs). The article goes into why LSPs are useful (especially providing liquidity to users, although LSPs will increasingly provide more and more services in the future, such as the handling of asynchronous payments, as Roy explained in our newsletter). It also expands into a comprehensive lists of the current existing LSPs providers and tools, their monetization models (does the LSP charges a one-time fee? a per transaction rate? does it lease channels?) ; as well as the future of LSPs, with their increased integration into merchants Point of Sales software and users wallets. Definitely worth a read! 🤝 Read the post: https://medium.com/synonym-to/the-rise-of-lightning-service-providers-6410274d5b70

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Last week was a huge one for Lightning wallets! ⚡️ 🐦 Phoenix got splicin' 🏴‍☠️ Mutiny became available for everyone 🏔️ Zeus made a hell of an announcement & more! 🤓Intrigued? Find out more in this week's 👇

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Latest Strikes 45 - July 10th-16th 2023

Last week was massive for Lightning wallets! We got an impressive Phoenix update, Mutiny coming out of beta, and Zeus literally unleashing the thun...

⚡️DailyZap: In case you missed it!! LND Minor Release LND shipped a minor release fixing a memory leak introduced when performing optimizations in the new mempool scanning logic. Release:

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Release lnd v0.16.4-beta · lightningnetwork/lnd

This is a minor release created to fix a memory leak introduced by a CPU optimization to the recently introduced mempool scanning logic. This relea...

Our CM in the very early days of Nostr by Maxisclub🐸

⚡DailyZap: Open Music The Wavlake team shared some very interesting thoughts around what open music can enable -- and enables already. Indeed, as you may already know, all the tracks listed on Wavlake are published their by their author, who agree to let anyone access and use this content, for free. The artist's compensation is sought in the Value4Value model: listeners can voluntarily decide to send some sats to the creator. But there's more: if a podcaster uses a track in an episode, they can set some field in the podcast's RSS feed so that, during the time the song is aired, sats streamed by podcast players (using the Podcasting2.0 Value4Value paradigm) are directly sent to the original creator of the music. This opens up a whole new realm of cooperation between creators of all kinds, where every digital content can be reused freely, and where everyone can still get their fair share. Wanna know what's even crazier? We don't even need NFTs for this! I thought they were the cornerstone of the #web3 creator economy!

⚡️ DailyZap: Introducing THE RektBot rektBot is a nostr bot made by @pythcoiner to get rekt with swag while trading on @LN Markets 😎 you can find him at #npub15w8szlfuwx86zt62q73mkude9gtsm8rzzjshlj3ug8wf6wprvhcsj2nuj0 Repo:

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⚠️ [BEWARE, This is experimental and should be used for the culture only! Enjoy the lols!]🐸 PS: It's nice to see frens building cool stuff on top of LNM! Thank you so much!

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⚡️DailyZap: LNM Stuff Last week was a release week at LN Markets! We pushed: 🆙 increased trading limits (0.1 BTC of margin per trade, and 1 BTC per account), 🆕 a new order type: stop limit orders, 💪 an upgrade to our Umbrel app, which will make further releases easier. Also, two days ago we published a new issue of our newsletter, with Roy from @Breez_Tech as our very special guest. Go give it a read! Newsletter:

#63 - Roy Sheinfeld, LNM fam & Lightning friends

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⚡️ DailyZap: Deep dive into Oracle-Based Conditional payments So this week is almost over! But before you go: check the second post of our deep dive on Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs). Go give it a read! Post

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Deep dive into Oracle-Based Conditional payments

This post will be technical, there will be maths! Do you have time ahead to focus? If yes, then grab your mug of tea or coffee and enjoy the ride!

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⚡️DailyZap: Breez SDK The hype around the Breez SDK reached a new top last when @WitDeJesse showcased how easy it is to get started and add Lightning payments capabilities to a mobile app. Check it on Twitter:

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Breez ⚡ (@Breez_Tech) on X

Breez is revolutionizing Lightning⚡You can now add Lightning payments to your app in minutes. It's trustless, effortless and frictionless. Watch...

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Last week in Lightning ⚡️ was another busy one! 🧧 Open Source grants 🤖 Lightning & AI Convergence 🎶 Open Music 🍎 Apple Getting Struck Again 📈 And even some LNM stuff! Blog Post Link:

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Latest Strikes 44 - July 3rd-9th 2023

Ecosystem Greetings! Welcome to the 44th issue of Latest Strikes, your weekly recap of all the things happening in Lightning! This week's piece i...

⚡️ DailyZap: Keeping The Specification Tidy There's an ongoing cleaning work initiated by Rusty Russel on the Bolts repository, which is akin to the Lightning Network's specification. This cleanup notably consists in the "removal" of some features that used to be optional, but are now so widely implemented that they don't need to be explicitly advertised by nodes anymore. This is the case, for example, for the gossip_queries feature, which allows node to specify to their peer what kind of gossip data they're interested in. As pretty much all the nodes on the network now implement this feature by default, it doesn't make much sense anymore to discuss with a peer whether they support this feature or not when connecting to them. Repo:

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Clean up: remove two unused features, assume four more by rustyrussell · Pull Request #1092 · lightning/bolts

Removed: initial_routing_sync (only had an effect if gossip_queries not supported) option_anchor_outputs (only supported by older experimental-onl...

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