Latest Strikes is out! In this issue: - a new Eclair release - experimental Bolt12 Payer Proofs in Core Lightning @Blockstream @Rusty Russell - a new lightweight merchant payment processing tool called qpayd - CLINK coming to @ZEUS (cc @shocknet_justin @EVAN KALOUDIS ) - a new Bitcoin Treasury Company launching its LSP & more! 👇 View article →

playing with boni by @npub15gcctf2jhfs96l9hks4twk37ux72vna8dxju3e9w7z65e9f9h4dsfz08sx. love the ui, looks promising and got the sign-in flow just right

Got a new zap address, self-hosted. Looking for a fren or two to zap this post to test everything works. Thanks!

Latest Strikes is out! In this issue: - Lightning Trades in HodlHodl (powered by @Ark Labs and @Satora (ex-Lendasat) ) - Blinded Paths by default in Virtual Private Node by @ripsline - 40M Lightning Addresses in Kenya thanks to @Tando.me - Core Lightning v26.06 released ( @Blockstream ) - @Alby adds support for Core Lightning in Alby Hub - @Amboss paper on predicting channel closures with machine learning (spoiler: public gossip data isn't enough). View article →

Latest Strikes is out! Featured in this release: - an evaluation of our Post-Quantum options by Olaoluwa “roasbeef” Osuntokun - Simple Taproot Channels merged into the spec - zero-fee commitments also merged into the spec - Boltz Backend update bringing multiple LND and full Arkade support @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange View article →

What caught my eye in the Lightning world last week: - Whales Exchange put Electrum submarine swap providers into a fork of @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange web app - @ThomasV 's proposed a protocol for public fraud proofs for just-in-time channels - Axiom and @ZEUS published a deep report on Lightning economics - LND got a release candidate, bringing onion messages and simple taproot channels support - Core Lightning v26.04 was released and much more! View article →

Latest Strikes is out! In this issue: - @ripsline 's Virtual Private Node - a discussion on Onion Message jamming - an Eltoo channel on signet As always, share, subscribe & feedback appreciated 🙏⚡

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Week 16 of 2026 - Latest Strikes

A VPS-first node project and an exploration into Onion Message jamming mitigations.

ICYMI, Latest Strikes is out! This edition covers Bolt12Pay, the latest Core Lightning release candidate, peer scoring in Eclair, LND addressing its forwarding data retention problem, rust-lightning fixing a RBF feerate bug, and Bastien Teinturier initiating the draft for "zero fee commitments taproot channels". Latest Strikes is a weekly newsletter. You can also subscribe on lateststrikes.com to get it delivered straight to your mailbox! View quoted note →

Latest Strikes is out! In this issue: - splicing got merged baby 🥳 - Lexe public release - Eddy circular rebalancing and more! View article →

Latest Strikes is out! In this issue: - agentic payments with MPP, Spark and Lightning Labs - John Cantrell bringing MoneyDevKit (cc @Nick Slaney ) to Cloudflare Workers - @tiero 's ClawCash gives your agent a wallet - @Geyser 's Rootstock prisms & also @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange @Blitz Wallet & @Voltage View article →

Latest Strikes is out! Is this issue: Ark stuff, Liquid <> LN swaps, rust-lighting, and laddered timeout-trees and more! - @Ark Labs - @Second - @Blockstream - @aeon 📜CTV + CSFS - @Roy - @Mostro - lightning-rust - @npub1p2uv...74ms and 8144225309 View article →

Latest Strikes is out! 🚀 In this issue we take a close look at the recent @Cake Wallet release. We also cover @Boltz - Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange mandatory update for Boltz Client and BTCPay plugin, as well as changes in LND, LDK and Eclair. Enjoy! View article →

Latest Strikes is out! This issue covers 3 weeks, so it's a big one, and it even got some drawings! Featured in this issue: - @Voltage & SDM - Lexe - @Amboss - @Alby - MoneyDevKit (cc @Nick Slaney ) - @npub136hk...th6q - Nadav Kohen - @Super Testnet View article →

The 1.0.0 @Zapstore release is very nice, congrats & thanks team! 🙏

I'm gonna guess: basically Umbrel Home with a small miner inside. View quoted note →

Latest Strikes is out! Features in this issue: - @Bittr 🐷💰 - Gregory Sanders (a.k.a. instagibbs) - @ThomasV and @Felix - @ZEUS and MoneyBadger View article →

Breaking: company that trained their models on petabytes of illegally-obtained data pinky swear not to use your data if you subscribe to the paid tier.

The 6th issue of Latest Strikes ⚡️ (season 3) is out! Featured: - @Machankura 📞⚡ 8333.mobi - @npub1n9z4...sp8y - Polar ( @npub1hdpj...nuf5 ) - Core Lightning ( @Blockstream ) - Eclair - Rene Pickhardt View article →

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Latest Strikes is out! Featuring: - @Blockstream - @Fountain - @npub1xzfv...07lg - Chaincode Labs - Beulah Evanjalin - @Second - @npub1334u...g0nh View article →