Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream recently rebranded its Lightning Network implementation from c-lightning to Core Lightning (CLN) in an attempt to highlight the project’s long-term focus on ...

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has hit a record 5,637 BTC in capacity, driven by increased capital from institutions.

Lightning Network capacity has hit a new ATH of 5,606 BTC (~$500 million) as exchanges increase crypto adoption, with Amboss ...

The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

This week’s newsletter describes a LN node payment proposal, Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and more. The Bitcoin Optech newsletter provides readers with a top-level summary of the most important ...

Developers behind leading Lighting Network firms LND, CLN and LDK described how they’re pushing Layer 2 forward at Bitcoin 2022. The Lightning Network can't exactly fork like Bitcoin itself can, but ...

A Twitter user by the name “Burak” (@brqgoo) sent a large swath of the Lightning Network into turmoil on Tuesday morning, when he allegedly created a non-standard Bitcoin transaction that prevented ...

The Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling platform, has a privacy problem. Receiving payments, requesting refunds, and opening and closing payment channels (connections between Lightning nodes) ...

An emergency update was released to all of Lightning Network's LND node operators on Nov. 1, after a critical bug caused LND nodes to fall out of sync chain. This was the second critical bug ...