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BitGo launched Lightning Earn, a product allowing institutions to earn Bitcoin-denominated routing fees by providing liquidity on the Lightning Network via an integration with Amboss Technologies' Rails platform.
Bitcoin's on-chain privacy is architecturally limited, but CoinJoin and the Lightning Network provide effective solutions. Shielded client-side validation represents the future for unstoppable anonymity.
Roastbeef outlines a post-quantum Lightning design requiring multiple cryptographic primitives - MLKEM for transport, MLDSA for off-chain signatures, SLHDSA for on-chain scripts - since no single PQ solution replaces ECC's multifunctional node key.
A routing node with 1,000 channels updating every 10 minutes would exhaust SLHDSA-128-24's 16 million signature limit in about four months, highlighting a key reuse constraint for post-quantum Lightning.
Core Lightning v26.06 deprecates the Pay plugin in favor of XPay, which uses the AskRené plugin and minimum cost flow algorithms for improved multipath payment routing, and adds a payer proof implementation for Bolt 12 offers.
Jason explains Tando is a translation layer between Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and Kenya’s mobile money system M-Pesa, enabling anyone to spend Bitcoin anywhere M-Pesa is accepted by converting a payment to sats.
Jason describes Tando’s new feature where any Kenyan phone number can receive Bitcoin via a Lightning address, defaulting to M-Pesa shillings if the recipient isn't a Bitcoiner.
Maritime service platform Hormuz SAFE in Iran claims to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments for services like marine insurance and emergency response.
One Vienna bar owner using Moonwal reported recent fiat card payment failures and preferred Lightning for its speed and reliability.