Hi Lightning Devs!
Recently Strike and HRF posted 3 bitcoin bounties for features they want to
see implemented in bitcoin. The second one is "Stable Channels".
This requires pegging your bitcoin to a fixed amount of USD value inside of
your lightning channel. This can be accomplished with
> I don't find too compelling the potential problem of a 'bad wallet
designer', whether lazy or dogmatic, misusing noinput. I think there are
simpler ways to cut corners and there will always be plenty of good wallet
options people can choose.
In my original post, the business that I am talking
I do have some concerns about SIGHASH_NOINPUT, mainly that it does
introduce another footgun into the bitcoin protocol with address reuse.
It's common practice for bitcoin businesses to re-use addresses. Many
exchanges [1] reuse addresses for cold storage with very large sums of
money that is
> You could purchase an auth token upfront that allows you access for some
amount of time of some number of requests (seems to be the most efficient
for APIs that would be called more than once)
This does have privacy implications. It is yet to be seen how these things
develop, but this obviously
Hey Alex,
I think the benefit here is in reducing the client-server interaction for
REST apis while still ensuring payment to the merchant.
Let's assume that we don't have this scheme, and want to provide a
monetized REST API. The workflow looks like this, which is similar to what
our behavior
Hi all,
We recently proposed a standard for encrypting data with the pre-image that
is being revealed over Lightning[1]. After talking with various folks in
the ecosystem the consesus seems to be it would be a good idea to create a
repository for organizing LAS (Lightning Application
Hi all,
Hope your 2019 is off to a fantastic start. I'm really excited for
Lightning in 2019.
We are currently reviving a lite client project in bitcoin-s (
https://github.com/bitcoin-s/bitcoin-s-core/pull/280). The goal is to have
a modern replacement for bitcoinj that also can be used for L2
