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⚡️ Storm Report: Best posts about the Lightning Network on SN - issue: 963456

By HODLR August 21, 2026
The Monthly Thunderbolt Dispatch on Bitcoin payment layers innovations, aggregating the Best posts about the ~Lightning Network and others Bitcoin L2 solution
⚡️ Storm Report: Best posts about the Lightning Network on SN - issue: 963456

Block: #963456 - Aug 2026

The Monthly Thunderbolt Dispatch on Bitcoin payment layers innovations, aggregating the Best posts about the ~Lightning Network and others Bitcoin L2 solution- Exclusively on Stacker.News

It’s that time of the month again, time to catch up with the latest features and trends that are shaping the future of Bitcoin Lightning and most commented insights from around SN cypherspace. Every issue arrives with expert analysis, in-depth interview, and breaking news of the most significant advancements in the Bitcoin layer two solutions.

Top ~Lightning posts

Most zapranked posts this month:

  1. I closed my node c-otto.de
    14.2k sats [17 comments](https://stacker.news/items/1551319/r/HODLR “991 sats (963 stacked \ 28 cost \ 0 boost)”) \ @C_Otto 20 Aug, ~lightning

  2. Add BOLT12 zaps by benthecarman · Pull Request #2421 · nostr-protocol/nips
    11.4k sats \ 8 comments \ @supratic 23 Jul, ~nostr, ~lightning

  3. A thousand people can own one Bitcoin transaction.
    10.6k sats \ 11 comments \ @06bc1a977d 19 Aug, ~lightning

  4. Omega Splice - Dusty Daemon
    10.7k sats \ 11 comments \ @Kruw 26 Jul, ~bitcoin, ~bitdevs, ~lightning, ~Coinjoins

  5. Splicing timeline for Zeus Wallet ACCELERATED
    10.9k sats \ 11 comments \ @Kruw 4 Aug, ~lightning, ~Coinjoins

Top posts by comments

Excluding the ones already mentioned above, you can see them all here (excluding those already listed above):

  1. Boltz and ZeusLSP temporarily shut down swap services
    3752 sats \ 91 comments \ @justin_shocknet 3 Aug, ~bitcoin, ~lightning

  2. The First Direct Current User (that’s not me)! Check him out!
    1298 sats \ 38 comments \ @jasonb 4 Aug, ~Music, ~AGORA, ~lightning

  3. Podcasting 2.0 LIghtning Donations Down
    2055 sats \ 26 comments \ @magnolia_mayhem 11 Aug, ~bitcoin, ~podcasts, ~lightning

  4. The new Wallet of Satoshi “Lightning” wallet is NOT self-custodial!
    6184 sats \ 24 comments \ @supratic 16 Aug, ~lightning

  5. Preparing for BIP-110 channels fork off
    685 sats \ 24 comments \ @06bc1a977d 7 Aug, ~lightning

Don’t miss…

https://stacker.news/items/1540666/r/HODLR How to refill your emptied LN channels without Boltz swaps

https://stacker.news/items/1531804/r/HODLR Clams v1: Local-First Accounting for Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid

https://stacker.news/items/1540666/r/HODLR How to refill your emptied LN channels without Boltz swaps

https://stacker.news/items/1541262/r/HODLR Latest Strikes #31 - July 27 - August 2nd 2026 - Boltz, BIP110, & more!

https://stacker.news/items/1531695/r/HODLR CD209: MATTHEW VUK - BARK - BITCOIN PAYMENTS ON ARK

https://stacker.news/items/1534075/r/HODLR ZeusLN/zeus · Release v13.1.3

https://stacker.news/items/1532907/r/HODLR How Lightning Scales Bitcoin | Megalith Lightning Docs

https://stacker.news/items/1542402/r/HODLR c-otto.de - slowly shutting down

https://stacker.news/items/1545125/r/HODLR Zeus LSP is back up and running!!

https://stacker.news/items/1530989/r/HODLR Playing with Wavelength

https://stacker.news/items/1547247/r/HODLR Disclosure: LND doesn’t wait for enough confirmations when closing channels

https://stacker.news/items/1544885/r/HODLR LIGHTNING.pub — Lightning shouldn’t be a hobby that loses money.

https://stacker.news/items/1534141/r/HODLR BOLT 12: payer proofs has been merged - Wen BOLT12 zaps?

https://stacker.news/items/1532877/r/HODLR Why are Alby Go and Alby Hub showing me different spending balances?

https://stacker.news/items/1534769/r/HODLR AMA request: Paul Storcz’s dealer

https://stacker.news/items/1548216/r/HODLR Zeus Post-Mortem: Security Update - August 5th, 2026

https://stacker.news/items/1540674/r/HODLR How to refill a SPEND wallet with Electrum’s built-in swaps (no Boltz, no Node)

And why not, Top Downzapped

It may worth noting down these too. The most downzapped posts this month:

  1. Hitler tries a fake L2…
    4447 sats \ 8 comments \ @justin_shocknet 19h, ~bitcoin, ~lightning -25.2k sats

  2. SNL: #234
    2587 sats \ 0 comments \ @hasherstacker 24 Jul, ~meta, ~bitcoin_beginners, ~lightning -5000 sats

  3. You’ve been doing Bitcoin’s sales work for free. Not anymore. - Amboss
    1066 sats \ 2 comments \ @Scoresby 18 Aug, ~bitcoin, ~lightning -5000 sats

  4. I’ve researched ARK, Liquid, RSK and Spark. Lightning still wins.
    1796 sats \ 5 comments \ @BTCLNAT 25 Jul, ~AskSN, ~bitcoin_beginners, ~lightning -5000 sats

  5. Zeus infra temporarily offline following security incident
    3607 sats \ 8 comments \ @justin_shocknet 5 Aug, ~lightning -4200 sats

Thank you to all ⚡️contributors

Top stackers by posts

Huge thank you to the most active users in the past month.
Zap split distributed accordingly to first 2.

  • @hasherstacker: 52
  • @06bc1a977d: 29
  • @supratic: 23
  • @0xbitcoiner: 10
  • @i_am_a_seeker: 4

Top 10 conversation kickers

Here below the most active users by number of comments.
Zap split distributed accordingly to first 3.

  • @DarthCoin: 63
  • @BlokchainB : 54
  • @optimism: 43
  • @06bc1a977d: 32
  • @Undisciplined: 28
  • @Kruw: 26
  • @superatic: 18
  • @satslist: 18
  • @anon: 15
  • @jasonb: 14

Top LN posts outside ~Lightning

This month best posts about the Lightning Network outside ~Lightning territory:

  1. Woocommerce and BTCpay server
    15.5k sats \ 67 comments \ @Natalia 23 Jul bitcoin

  2. Does lightning or coinjoin give better privacy?
    14k sats \ 26 comments \ @wackster 25 Jul AskSN Coinjoins

  3. At what point did we stop caring about freedom?
    13.8k sats \ 31 comments \ @anon 16 Aug bitcoin

  4. Trip Report: Chicago
    12k sats \ 11 comments \ @leo 30 Jul Travel

  5. Which Bitcoin phone wallet to recommend for newbies
    9218 sats \ 41 comments \ @teemupleb 10 Aug AskSN]

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Thanks all and until next, stackers.

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