Letting a Million Channels Bloom

Letting a Million Channels Bloom

The Lightning Network does, in fact, have scaling problems of its own. When the network grows to millions of channels we obviously won’t be able to run it on a Raspberry Pi.  Don’t tell Rusty Russell or Joe Netti that, because they’ll just build their own...
MuSig: A New Multisignature Standard

MuSig: A New Multisignature Standard

Cypherpunks write code! Last year we received a published paper detailing the advantages of the new MuSig Multisignature Scheme, this year we get the code. From the incredible minds at Blockstream, don’t miss an exciting development in cryptographically securing...
Announcing C-Lightning 0.6

Announcing C-Lightning 0.6

“All three of the Lightning implementations (Eclair, lnd, & c-lightning) are now in beta!” – Christian Decker & Rusty Russell Check out the other great work and full article with links at the Blockstream Blog:...
Lapp 7 – The Lightning Jukebox

Lapp 7 – The Lightning Jukebox

The final lightning app has arrived to finish out the Week of Lapps! Listen to the announcement from @Blockstream. Link to the blog post: https://blockstream.com/2018/03/28/lightning-jukebox-offers-a-fun-end-to-our-week-of-lapps.html