~Lightning Gossip newsletter - 026W39

• Top Posts by Sats
• Top posts by Comments
• Don’t Miss
• Top Comments
• Hidden Posts by Downzaps
• Contributors

September 18, 2026 – September 25, 2026

Welcome to latest weekly edition of The ~lightning Network Gossip newsletter.

§Top Posts by Sats

1. 10,000 SATS PROOF-OF-WORK RUN: Who can run the furthest?
   5,092 sats \ 17 comments \ 21 Sep
2. Turn CoinJoin change into shared Lightning liquidity
   3,907 sats \ 23 comments \ 25 Sep
3. bolt11: reject duplicate payment hashes in invoices
   3,265 sats \ 9 comments \ 18 Sep

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§Top posts by Comments

1. A Cloudflare WAF for Lightning?
   1,592 sats \ 24 comments \ 21 Sep
2. Having issues with the zapping
   428 sats \ 16 comments \ 19 Sep
3. What’s your primary LN node setup?
   1,160 sats \ 15 comments \ 21 Sep

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§Don’t Miss

1. Only in Bitcoin
   3,151 sats \ 6 comments \ 21 Sep
2. x402 merges lightning specifications
   1,817 sats \ 7 comments \ 23 Sep
3. Responsible disclosure and White hacking it’s about Caring
   2,116 sats \ 2 comments \ 24 Sep
4. New Prediction in Predyx 💹🚀
   449 sats \ 12 comments \ 19 Sep
5. Best boltz alternative with good liquidity?
   1,689 sats \ 10 comments \ 22 Sep
6. Holoboard.space - A bulletin board lit with sats
   730 sats \ 9 comments \ 22 Sep

See ’em all →

§Top Comments

1. @ek: I think LND was winning before; see Matt Morehouse’s blog. I don’t know if he spent the same amount of time on each implementation, though. You…
   526 sats \ 1 reply \ 20 Sep on lnfuzz
2. @Scoresby: In order for you to attach a wallet to spend on Stacker News, it has to have some way to authorize spends when you tap the lightning button (or…
   185 sats \ 2 replies \ 23 Sep on phoenix android as send wallet?
3. @SimpleStacker: Lightning powered quake? I may have to try this.
   211 sats \ 0 replies \ 23 Sep on CREATE QUAKE MATCHES · AND CHARGE A JOIN FEE

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§Hidden Posts by Downzaps

1. Biggest Channel Opened Today (5.0 BTC) + New Node Spotlight (02e19f348421b0ef3…) — 700 downzaps
2. Biggest Channel Opened Today (5.0 BTC) + New Node Spotlight (03b67229f9450cbea…) — 700 downzaps
3. I counted a week of Nostr zaps. The typical zap is 21 sats; the money is 65 zaps — 325 downzaps

See all downzaps →

§Contributors

A share of the sats earned by this post goes to the week’s top contributors:

1. @ek — featured in 4 sections \ 4 posts \ 8 comments
2. @0xbitcoiner — featured in 1 sections \ 8 posts \ 4 comments
3. @06bc1a977d — featured in 1 sections \ 5 posts \ 52 comments

Thank you stackers! That’s all, until next week.

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