Lightning This Week | 608,974
New C-Lightning v0.8.0, LN Penalty Tracker, and Phoenix Wallet
Hi, it’s been a busy couple of days here at ZEBEDEE so we’re going to keep today’s LTW short and sweet. Let’s go!
C-Lightning v0.8.0 Released
The C-Lightning team has released the new 0.8.0 version of the node software. It includes improvements such as multi-part payments (receiving only for now), createonion and sendonion (see LTW 607,974) and other extended plugin functionality, and now defaults to Bitcoin mainnet chain. Be a good node operator, help test and use the new release.
C. Decker’s Thread on the release: https://twitter.com/Snyke/status/1206715011105722368
Full Changelog: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#080---2019-12-16-blockchain-good-orange-coin-bad
LND v0.8.2-beta Released
A new release for LND, v0.8.2-beta. This one contains no major new features but includes a few goodies relating to Static Channel Backups (SCB)— you can now use SCBs to recover funds of unconfirmed channels, there is better logging in ChainNotifier and better handling of already-received channels in a Multi-SCB backup scenario.
Release & Changelog: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.8.2-beta
BitMEX Research‘s LN Penalty Transaction Tracker
BitMEX Research have launched a new tracker for LN penalty transactions. Penalty transactions occur when an honest node sweeps away all the funds inside of a channel during the closing of that channel. Of all the channel-closing types in Lightning, this is the one most easily detectable in the Bitcoin blockchain.
We have implemented an alert system, which tracks all penalty transactions in real time and provides information about them, such as the value of bitcoin claimed by the honest node.
Blog Post Announcement: https://blog.bitmex.com/lightning-network-part-5-bitmex-research-launches-penalty-transaction-alert-system/
ForkMonitor Tracker: https://forkmonitor.info/lightning
Minimum HTLC Size in Channel (msats)
LND PR 3697 modifies the default minimum HTLC size for a channel from 1 satoshi to 0 msatoshis. From now on, if you create a channel with a sub 1 satoshi HTLC minimum, you’ll be able to accept payments in millisats in that channel.
Raspibolt 2 Released
Raspibolt v2 has been released with a ton of upgrades and new features. Given that it builds upon the new Raspberry Pi 4 which boasts 4GB RAM, we can now do full on-device blockchain validation. Also, in v2 of Raspibolt Bitcoin Core, LND, and Electrs (rust Electrum server) run entirely over Tor.
Full Announcement Thread: https://twitter.com/Stadicus3000/status/1206341202813095942
Raspiboltz: https://stadicus.github.io/RaspiBolt/
Phoenix Wallet
ACINQ has released their newest Bitcoin and Lightning Network wallet called Phoenix. Phoenix is a non-custodial Lightning wallet with an easy-to-use interface, and is the first production LN wallet to have AMP (multi-part payments) support.
Website: https://phoenix.acinq.co/
That is all for Lightning This Week. If I’ve missed something important please let me know through the comments or on Twitter.
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