ICYMI, this week's Latest Strikes are out! This issue covers: - Lightning Prisms by #[0] and #[1] - the new #[2] tournament at the intersection of Nostr and Bitcoin/Lightning - the latest #[3] game drop - #[4] and #[5] new releases - Dusty Daemon's splicing implementation in Core Lightning - and much more! 👉

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Latest Strikes 27 - Mar. 6th-12th 2023

How you doin'? Last week was a bit less tumultuous than the previous one, but there was still a lot happening. Let's unfold it together, shall we? ...

Still wrapping my head around the description_hash affair with Core Lightning (see

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calle (@callebtc) on X

LNbits users: Until we figure out how to fix issues introduced by new CLN updates, upgrading CLN to 0.23 will break basically all LNURL functions. ...

by #[0] ), but as much as I understand the devs concerns, it seems to me that bolt11 makes it quite clear that it is the lightning implementation's responsibility to check that the description and its hash match.

GitHub

bolts/11-payment-encoding.md at master · lightning/bolts

BOLT: Basis of Lightning Technology (Lightning Network Specifications) - lightning/bolts

Published the 26th edition of Latest Strikes yesterday! I didn't realise until I put it all together that it was a long one (about 15 minutes read), maybe the longest since the beginning. Let me know what you think!

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Latest Strikes 26 - Feb. 27th - Mar. 6th

Live long and prosper 🖖 Welcome to the 26th issue of Latest Strikes! That's right, 26. At the yet unbroken pace of one issue per week, this mean...

Anyone doing cool stuff and accepting donations with a BOLT12 Offer? Need one for illustration purposes, and might as well hit two birds with one stone.

Why does Iris prompt me to sign a note containing only a number when opening my messages? What is it?

Just submitted a short story to Konsensus Networks's "21 Futures" anthology 💪

Happy 777,777 everyone!

Latest Strikes #24 is currently under polishing, and will be published very soonTM.