Agenda

Weather Report

News

  • Steak n’ Shake to accept bitcoin accross 500 US locations link
  • Orange Pill App Lighting Wallet Crosses 1M Transactions SN
  • How Oliver Porter is Helping Gen Z Earn and Learn Bitcoin With Jippi link
  • Stripe shows iOS developers how to avoid Apple’s App Store commission link

Topics

  • Advancements in Lightning Infrastructure link SN
  • Greenlight empowers non-custodial lightning integration using VLS link
  • BitGo’s Institutional-Grade Access to Efficient Bitcoin Transactions link
  • Hydrus - Lightning Liquidity Management Agent link
  • ngx_l402 - nginx module for L402 auth link
  • LNVPS - a VPS provider leveraging Bitcoin Lightning and Nostr link

Delving Bitcoin

  • Path Queries Addressing Payment Reliability and Routing Limitations link
  • Mitigating Channel Depletion in the Lightning Network: A Survey of Potential Solutions link

PR Highlights

BOLTs

Merged

  • Require minimally-encoded features in BOLT 11 invoices link
  • Check for preimage before failing back missing HTLCs link
    • addresses root cause of lnd-excessive-failback-exploit (discussed last week re “Disclosure of fixed LND vulnerability allowing theft”) 0 Make payment secret mandatory and ASSUMED link

BLIPs

Open

  • blip-0060: trampoline payments to legacy Bolt11 invoices link

New Releases

Core Lightning

  • v25.02.2 - Onion Packet Filler Accreditation III link
  • v25.02.1 - Onion Packet Filler Accreditation II link
  • v24.11.2 The lightning-dev Mailing List III link

LND

  • lnd v0.19.0-beta.rc4 link
  • lnd 0.19.0-beta.rc3 link
  • lnd v0.19.0-beta.rc2 link

LDK

  • v0.1.2 - Apr 02, 2025 - “Foolishly Edgy Cases” link

ACINQ

Eclair
  • Eclair v0.12.0 link
phoenix
  • Phoenix v2.5.3 link
phoenixd

lnbits

  • v1.0.0 - Alan Bits link
  • LNboard.com link SN
  • Liquidity squeezing from your node link SN