Releases
"Greenlight is our scalable, non-custodial Lightning-as-a-Service, or LaaS, solution that offloads the complexities of operating a Lightning node to Blockstream experts while keeping keys in the user's control for greater security."
News
Bitcoin Amsterdam is the largest Bitcoin Conference in Europe, hosted in Amsterdam on October 12 - 13, 2023 at Westergas.
News
Bitcoin application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Bitmain has temporarily halted employee salary payments for September, ceased all staff bonuses, and is considering 50% cut to basic wages, according to several local news outlets.
Releases
Alby is a Bitcoin, Lightning and Nostr browser extension that connects to different wallet interfaces, including personal nodes. It let's users manage their payments and authentication flows on the web.
Releases
"Seed Vault enables storage of multiple secrets into the COLDCARD’s encrypted settings for easy recall and later use. They are encrypted with a key based on your seed (using AES-256-CTR), but are not themselves stored in the Secure Elements."
Research
"This paper studies a newly compiled data set of annual balance sheets of more than 11,000 commercial banks across 17 advanced economies since 1870."
Releases
This week’s newsletter links to a specification for a proposed OP_TXHASH opcode and includes regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, linking to new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
Releases
Ride The Lightning (RTL) is a full function, device agnostic, web user interface to help manage lightning node operations. RTL is available on LND, Core Lightning and Eclair implementations.
News
Fidelity Digital Assets released a report on why Bitcoin is fundamentally different from other digital assets.
Releases
Scaling Lightning is a testing toolkit for the Lightning Network.
Releases
Tapleaf circuits is a proof-of-concept implementation of BitVM for bristol circuits.
Research
"There are no public metrics on how many people use Lightning, so critics point at metrics such as node count, channels, and capacity, which have plateaued over the past year and thus give a false impression that Lightning's adoption may be stagnating or declining. Our research shows the opposite.."
