Tag: Lightning

Lightning tightens invoice rules after reported attack made Bitcoin withdrawals look unpaid

Lightning builders tightened BOLT11, the Lightning Community’s bill commonplace, on Oct. 19…

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Bitcoin Lightning developers sound alarm over security flaws as second patch lands in five days

Bitcoin Lightning developer ACINQ urged node operators to improve Eclair after patching…

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Eclair patches a browser attack that could send commands to your Lightning node

Eclair, ACINQ's Bitcoin Lightning node software program, launched v0.14.4 on Oct. 15…

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Lightning apps using unpatched LDK risk Bitcoin theft from a reconnect lie

Lightning Growth Package (LDK), a library for constructing Bitcoin Lightning wallets and…

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Core Lightning patches critical security flaws and a Bitcoin payment bug

Core Lightning, software program for operating Bitcoin Lightning fee nodes, has launched…

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Electrum patches Lightning flaw, but old Bitcoin backups break

Electrum’s newest safety replace fixes a Lightning backup defect, however some Bitcoin…

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Unpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restart

A newly disclosed unfunded-channel flaw might depart Eclair, a Bitcoin Lightning implementation,…

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Bitcoin may go quantum-safe while Lightning privacy stays exposed

Even when Bitcoin finally adopts post-quantum protections for on-chain outputs, 5 elements…

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Critical Bitcoin Lightning bugs exposed nodes to fund theft and restart failure

Lightning Improvement Package, a toolkit for constructing Bitcoin Lightning purposes, launched v0.2.6…

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