The community Lightning Network implementation bringing instant, low-cost, global micropayments to Bitcoin.
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Jun 5
Core Lightning 26.06 "Quantum-Resistant Lightning Channel" has shipped.
Graceful shutdowns, precise send amounts, smarter payment retries, and enhanced payment privacy. Your node runs cleaner and your payments stay harder to observe. ⚡
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On May 26, 2015, @rusty_twit made his first commit to Core Lightning. What happened over the next eleven years speaks for itself.
Thank you, Rusty. ⚡
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Jun 5
Core Lightning 26.06 "Quantum-Resistant Lightning Channel" has shipped.
Graceful shutdowns, precise send amounts, smarter payment retries, and enhanced payment privacy. Your node runs cleaner and your payments stay harder to observe. ⚡
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Jun 5
The big architectural shift in this release is bwatch, a new block-watching plugin that fundamentally changes how CLN interacts with the Bitcoin blockchain. No more 30-second polling loops. Near-instant catch-ups on startup. Crash-resistant and built to scale.
Legacy pay is now deprecated. The xpay evolution is here.
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Jun 5
42 days. 236 commits. 19 contributors including @sangaChau and @rusty_twit, who designed bwatch from the ground up.
Lightweight, customisable, spec-focused Lightning. That's what this community keeps building. ⚡
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May 22
RC2 is here. Node runners and open-source testers, please do your thing.
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New Alby Hub 1.22 release is out!
⚡ Core Lightning support
🔗On-chain Wallet mode!
🤖 AI & Agents page
🏷️ Custom transaction labels
🔌 Redesigned setting app connection budget & expiration UX
🎨 Improved settings page design
Let’s dive in 🧵...
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May 15
CLN bounties are live. Real issues. Real code. Real impact on the spec-focused Lightning implementation.
Come build. discord.gg/EPTQX6GmAt
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May 12
CLN 26.06rc1 is live. Graceful shutdowns, more control over payment amounts, and a smarter payment engine under the hood.
Please upgrade and send us your feedback or open an issue on GitHub. This is open source Lightning in action. ⚡
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May 12
What's in it: graceful shutdown prep, sender-side amount control, xpay taking over from pay, xkeysend with modern routing, and BOLT12 payment proofs.
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May 4
Privacy isn't just about keys and addresses.
CLN v26.04 pads peer messages to a uniform length. An observer watching your node's traffic can no longer infer activity from message sizes.
Traffic analysis gets harder. That's by design.
Apr 20
Core Lightning 26.04 "Negative Routing Fees" has shipped.
Splicing is out of experimental, the node runs leaner, and peer messages are now padded to resist traffic analysis. ⚡
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Apr 29
No theory. Just hands on Bitcoin Transactions with @base58school and @btcplusplus Founder @niftynei on the @HRF Stage at @thebitcoinconf.
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In 15 minutes, @niftynei moderates Hands-on Bitcoin Transactions on the @HRF Freedom Go Up Stage at @thebitcoinconf. 12:30PM PDT.
Apr 22
Long-time Core Lightning contributor, creator of the Bookkeeper plugin, and the mind behind Liquidity Ads on the Lightning Network, Lisa Neigut (@niftynei) is at @thebitcoinconf next week.
Founder of @btcplusplus and @base58school, Nifty is one of the most impactful builders in open source Bitcoin. ⚡
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Apr 29
In 30 minutes, @niftynei keynotes the @thebitcoinconf Open Source Stage on the Bitcoin Developer Ecosystem. 11:00AM PDT.
Apr 22
Long-time Core Lightning contributor, creator of the Bookkeeper plugin, and the mind behind Liquidity Ads on the Lightning Network, Lisa Neigut (@niftynei) is at @thebitcoinconf next week.
Founder of @btcplusplus and @base58school, Nifty is one of the most impactful builders in open source Bitcoin. ⚡
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Apr 28
The next cycle of Bitcoin educators is being built in rooms like this. @niftynei, @arshmolu, @satsie, and @jdennehy_writes at @thebitcoinconf.
Apr 22
Tuesday April 28, @niftynei joins the @thebitcoinconf Genesis Stage for Interactive Strategies to Improve as a Bitcoin Educator alongside @arshmolu of @HRF, @satsie from @bitcoin_devs, and @jdennehy_writes of @MyFirstBitcoin_. 11:50AM PDT.
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Apr 22
Long-time Core Lightning contributor, creator of the Bookkeeper plugin, and the mind behind Liquidity Ads on the Lightning Network, Lisa Neigut (@niftynei) is at @thebitcoinconf next week.
Founder of @btcplusplus and @base58school, Nifty is one of the most impactful builders in open source Bitcoin. ⚡
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Tuesday April 28, @niftynei joins the @thebitcoinconf Genesis Stage for Interactive Strategies to Improve as a Bitcoin Educator alongside @arshmolu of @HRF, @satsie from @bitcoin_devs, and @jdennehy_writes of @MyFirstBitcoin_. 11:50AM PDT.
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Wednesday she's back twice. Keynoting the @thebitcoinconf Open Source Stage on the Bitcoin Developer Ecosystem at 11:00AM PDT, then moderating Hands-on Bitcoin Transactions on the @HRF Freedom Go Up Stage at 12:30PM PDT.
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Core Lightning ⚡️ retweeted
NEW RELEASE: Blockstream’s Core-Lightning node implementation (@core_ln) v26.04 brings splicing to every node and adds padding to all wire messages, aiming to frustrate traffic analysis of messages on the network
Apr 20
Core Lightning 26.04 "Negative Routing Fees" has shipped.
Splicing is out of experimental, the node runs leaner, and peer messages are now padded to resist traffic analysis. ⚡
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Core Lightning 26.04 "Negative Routing Fees" has shipped.
Splicing is out of experimental, the node runs leaner, and peer messages are now padded to resist traffic analysis. ⚡
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Splicing lets you resize channels without closing them, cutting open/close overhead, freeing idle capital, and ending reliance on centralized liquidity providers. 26.04 also ships parallel pathfinding improvements, payer notes on xpay, and roughly 20% smaller binaries.
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Open source Lightning improves because people show up and do the work. 421 commits. 110 days. 23 contributors, including six first-timers. The codebase is open. Eight bounties are up for grabs. Come build.
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