~Lightning Gossip newsletter - 026W43

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~Lightning Gossip newsletter - 026W43

~Lightning Gossip newsletter - 026W43

October 16, 2026 – October 23, 2026
Welcome to latest weekly edition of The ~lightning Network Gossip newsletter.

Top Posts by Sats

  1. Latest Strikes #42 - October 12th-18th 2026
    8,123 sats \ 3 comments \ 23 Oct
  2. Erick Cestari, Adam Gibson - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #427 Recap Podcast
    2,847 sats \ 3 comments \ 20 Oct
  3. How many people use lightning on a daily basis?
    2,215 sats \ 11 comments \ 23 Oct

See all post →

Top posts by Comments

  1. What is CoinOS’s “renew” feature
    1,921 sats \ 26 comments \ 22 Oct
  2. Receive-only Lightning checkout: a hacked server can’t drain your node
    1,308 sats \ 19 comments \ 18 Oct
  3. Exact-Channel Circular Rebalancing for Alby Hub
    711 sats \ 15 comments \ 20 Oct

See full list →

Don’t Miss

  1. Corisco: Open-source Lightning wallet where keys live on an HW device
    2,110 sats \ 4 comments \ 17 Oct
  2. Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #428
    2,106 sats \ 3 comments \ 23 Oct
  3. Introducing BOLT12 recurrence to LDK Nodes
    1,345 sats \ 3 comments \ 20 Oct
  4. What did you do with Lightning this week?
    863 sats \ 3 comments \ 20 Oct
  5. nodesignal’s cashu-player
    413 sats \ 3 comments \ 18 Oct
  6. Your sats aren’t sitting in an escrow wallet. So how does Mostro actually work?
    1,275 sats \ 2 comments \ 19 Oct

See ’em all →

Top Comments

  1. @dendehomie: plan ₿: 10 sats = 1 satna? imagine the year is 2028 and @k00b is running for president. “i have a plan to keep gas price below 70 units per gall…
    2,063 sats \ 0 replies \ 16 Oct on Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash: SoV -> transactional UoA -> MoE -> Global UoA
  2. @MoritzK: Assuming privacy and bandwith is of a concern for distributed inference, generating public training data for open AI models could be a use case…
    379 sats \ 0 replies \ 22 Oct on Sell inference on Mesh LLM and get paid directly to Alby Hub via NWC
  3. @Scoresby: Wow, this is a pretty horrible story. If all a scammer needs to open a CashApp or Paypal account is SSN and phone number, and if prosecutors wil…
    110 sats \ 0 replies \ 22 Oct on Someone Opened a CashApp In Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison

See all comments →

Hidden Posts by Downzaps

  1. SWIRL — Non-custodial anonymous transactions on Lightning — 1,000 downzaps
  2. Accepting lightning shouldn’t require a VPS for BTCPay Server. Now it doesn’t 🥳 — 1,000 downzaps
  3. The ‘0.1’ Lie — 210 downzaps

See all downzaps →

Top Contributors

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

  1. @06bc1a977d — featured in 3 sections \ 17 posts \ 40 comments
  2. @schmidty — featured in 2 sections \ 6 posts \ 0 comments
  3. @fanis — featured in 1 sections \ 2 posts \ 0 comments

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


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