Coming back from the holiday? Now is a great time to check the quality of your inbound liquidity! 🌊 Connect your node to terminal.lightning.engineering to check it out!

Ryan Gentry teaching Lightning 101 in my #bitcoin class. Not only is Ryan a precise technical expositor, but he is super relatable to my students. Like them, he was an engineering student in Texas a decade ago who traveled to #bitcoin. Not bad for a Longhorn!

several years in the making, I'm excited to announce the release of btcd v0.24: github.com/btcsuite/btcd/… this release includes many bug fixes, important security fixes (update!), pruning support, and many optimizations reducing chain sync time from ~45 hours+ (days) to ~6 hours

I'll be speaking about Taproot Assets and how they will help to bitcoinize the US Dollar at the Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town #AB24CPT conference. Join me on Saturday at 9:45am if you're in town! Looking forward to meeting many South African bitcoiners

IMMA LET Y'ALL FINISH, BUT THE LIGHTNING NETWORK IS *THE* ONLY DECENTRALIZED L2 IN PRODUCTION 🏆 NOT JUST ON BITCOIN, IN EXISTENCE 🌐 YO MULTI-SIG AIN'T AN L2 🚫 YO CENTRALIZED SEQUENCER AIN'T AN L2 🚫 IF IT AIN'T OPEN ACCESS W/ TRUSTLESS UNILATERAL EXIT IT AIN'T AN L2 🙅🏾‍♂️

An excellent 'good first issue' opened up on the Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 LND repo. If you'd like to get your hands dirty with lightning channels don't hesitate and check this out github.com/lightningnetwo…

Happy 4th halving! Here's to another 210k blocks of bringing #bitcoin to billions ⚡️

Have we mentioned lately how much we love and appreciate ZEUS. Thanks EVAN KALOUDIS for doing it right.

excited to announce that I’ve just made the first mainnet *asset* keysend payment w/ Taproot Asset channels! ⚡️🥕 below you can see me sending beefbux across nodes instantly the demo uses a dev version of litd (Lightning Terminal Daemon) that packages lnd+tapd ⛓️ ⬇️

Utreexod beta release is now available at github.com/utreexo/utreex…! I’m currently syncing my archival node on a raspberry pi 0. Planning to use the built in electrum personal server support to connect my personal wallet. Please try it out and let me know what you think! For

I'm excited announce the first mainnet *multi-hop asset* payment w/ Taproot Asset channels! 🥕⚡️ in this demo, we have a topology of: Zane -(beefbux)> Yara -(BTC)> Carol -(beefbux)> Dave Dave makes an invoice to recv beefbux (denominated in BTC!) w/ Yara using her beebux to

The first ever asset routed through #bitcoin on Lightning 😱

Announcing the first mainnet release of multi-asset Lightning. 💱⚡ With Taproot Assets, users can make instant, low fee asset transfers, bringing trillions of stablecoin volume to #bitcoin. Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer. 🌐 lightning.engineering/posts/2024-07-…

Our next Taproot Assets Community Call is this Thursday at 9am PT/12pm ET/4pm UTC. Join us to chat about the recent mainnet release of Taproot Assets on LN, running edge nodes, and bringing stablecoins to Lightning! ⚡💸 RSVP here: forms.gle/63ZGKKJZrSDVhA…

one key benefit of issuing Stablecoins on Taproot Assets is the built in transparency (Run The Numbers!), newly minted assets generate an issuance proof (posted publicly via Universe servers) which can be used to track the total supply and new issuance 🧮 🧵

First draft PR for Silent Payment send support in lnd is open: github.com/lightningnetwo…

Today we're announcing that Tether is coming to bitcoin and Lightning! 💸⚡ With the security and decentralization of bitcoin and the speed and scalability of Lightning, USDT will bring hundreds of millions of users and trillions in volume. It all comes back to bitcoin.

The Lightning Network has proven itself as the world's most decentralized, fastest settling, and lowest cost payments network. ⚡️ With today's announcement, we're adding the world's most popular stablecoin to the world's best payments network. LN + USDT = 🚀 🚀 🚀

PSA: If you ever had channels with LNBIG in the early days (2018-2021), read this! If you think you still have sats in such channels that you couldn't recover (e.g. your node broke down, no channel backup), there now might be a way. You only require your seed. Try...

We are hiring Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 for a variety of roles on the business and engineering teams. If you want to work with the best team in bitcoin, apply today! lightning.engineering/join-us/