Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Antoine Riard, a Lightning Network (LN) developer, recently disclosed a major vulnerability affecting Bitcoin’s scaling layer. This vulnerability, which was addressed with a series of mitigations, involves a “new transaction-relay jamming...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network was designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper. But according to a recent discovery by a now former Lightning developer Antoine Riard, there’s a major security flaw in the network that puts users’ funds...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
A new vulnerability termed as "replacement cycling attack" on the Lightning Network has been unveiled by a developer known as mononaut. The attack manipulates the transaction mechanism of the network, potentially causing financial loss to users. This...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
John Deaton’s remarks come amid concerns about alleged backdoors in the Bitcoin Lightning Network’s code. Lawyer and cryptocurrency supporter John Deaton has criticize...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
TL;DR - the kind of attack described does not allow the attacker to "take full control" of the lightning network as is being said on twitter. In fact, we have yet to see it take place "in the wild" precisely because it is too diff...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Antoine Riard believes the Bitcoin community faces a “hard dilemma” as a new class of replacement cycling attacks threatens the Lightning Network. Security researcher...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
Is this recent development regarding a critical flaw in the LN true, does it hold any validity? Because I think it's just FUD from some phony "developer" Have you heard of this. What do you think? submitted by /u/Cra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Relai, a European non-custodial Bitcoin wallet with broker services incorporated in the app, is announcing their integration of Lightning functionality today at the Plan B conference in Lugano. Lightning support will initially roll out as a closed in...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
More in this week’s Top Stories edition: ???? Another Idiotic New York Times FUD piece dismantled ???????????????? Bitcoin’s generational shift: two billion strong ⚒️ Building on Lightning: beating fiat with the Breez SDK ????️ Tornado Cash indic...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago
I want to teach someone from Australia to send AUD to the Philippines that will be receive in Peso. This is an alterntive to Wise. What app that uses lightning can do this from AU? Preferably an app that has easy on ramp or cash in from Aud. App that...
Bitcoin News / Google News Bitcoin - 1 year ago
Stablecoins Built on Bitcoin — Lightning Labs Launches Taproot Assets Mainnet Alpha – Bitcoin News& & Bitcoin.com News
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Lightning Labs has released the mainnet alpha of its Taproot Assets daemon, advancing the project that seeks to enable stablecoins and other token assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. The software provides developers with tools to begin issuing and mana...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
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