Lightning Network

Bitcoin payments app Blink Wallet restored services on September 19 after an attacker gained unauthorized access to a limited number of custodial accounts and withdrew funds, prompting the company to temporarily shut down its platform. Blink initially paused services while investigating the incident, saying the large majority of funds remained secure. Its non-custodial wallets were unaffected. The interruption came days after separate security warnings involving DCENT Wallet and Core Lightning, adding another wallet-related incident to a busy September for Bitcoin…

DCENT Wallet has urged users of its software-based app wallet to move their assets after detecting abnormal asset transfers, while Core Lightning issued a separate warning over a potential issue involving experimental features that may put user funds at risk. South Korea-based IoTrust, which develops DCENT, said it has launched an emergency investigation into the wallet activity. Users holding assets in the DCENT app wallet were told to transfer them to a secure hardware wallet or another trusted address as…

Core Lightning node operators are being urged to disconnect from peers while developers prepare signed binaries containing fixes for a group of undisclosed security vulnerabilities. Bitcoin developer Calle amplified the warning on August 26, urging CLN operators to take affected nodes offline until patched software is available. Core Lightning’s --offline setting prevents lightningd from binding to network ports or reconnecting to peers while allowing operators to continue local maintenance and monitoring. The vulnerabilities have not been linked to confirmed thefts…

Polymarket now supports instant Bitcoin deposits over Lightning, giving prediction-market users a faster funding route than standard on-chain BTC transactions. The integration is powered by Spark and lets users deposit Bitcoin directly into Polymarket accounts through Lightning-compatible apps and exchanges. Standard Bitcoin deposits can require block confirmations before funds become usable, while the new route is designed to settle in seconds with near-zero fees. The feature expands Polymarket’s funding stack after the platform added Bitcoin deposits last year alongside its…

Trezor Academy has released Seeding Bitcoin: Trezor Academy and Africa’s Bitcoin Revolution, a documentary focused on how Bitcoin is being earned, saved and spent across African communities where access to traditional finance can be limited. The release lands while Western market coverage remains dominated by price weakness, ETF redemptions and institutional demand. Bitcoin recently traded near $59,000, far below its October 2025 record above $125,000, while U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs continued bleeding demand. The latest fund-flow pressure followed a record…

An Iran-linked maritime service tied to the Strait of Hormuz is now presenting Bitcoin and Lightning as payment options for ships seeking insurance, transit coordination, security support and operational services in one of the world’s most sensitive energy chokepoints. The platform, Hormuz Safe, describes itself as an Iranian digital insurance and maritime services authority based in Bandar Abbas. Its public site lists services including marine assurance, traffic control, maritime security, emergency response and transit tracking across the Strait of Hormuz…

A Lightning wallet can show a healthy Bitcoin balance and still fail to receive a payment. A merchant can run a well-connected node and still watch invoices expire because the final channels do not have enough capacity flowing in the right direction. A routing node can hold several bitcoin across dozens of channels yet earn little because its liquidity sits on the wrong sides of those channels. Lightning liquidity is not simply the amount of bitcoin locked in a channel.…

There is an aspect of crypto and blockchain, usually utilizing ideas to obtain value from blockchain’s principal success. One instance of such is Bitcoin Hard Forks. Recently, an Etheereum product developer, known as David Hoffman, tweeted his bullish sentiments supporting Bitcoin transactions on Ethereum. The notion of running Bitcoin on a second faster chain always gets suggested. EOS has been trying to make such happen. The impact of the growth of Bitcoin networks drives the markets with stores of value…

The Bitcoin bullish software company MicroStrategy is building Bitcoin lightning network wallets that can be deployed to enterprises.  The company’s executive chairman and former CEO Michael Saylor shared details on the tech in a recent interview. In an uncharacteristic fashion, he also offered some short/medium-term price predictions for Bitcoin. MicroStrategy Builds on Lightning As Saylor told MarketWatch in an interview on Wednesday, the company’s wallet software will let business owners distribute Bitcoin to thousands of employees in a single afternoon. …