~Lightning Gossip newsletter - 026W41

October 2, 2026 – October 9, 2026 Welcome to latest weekly edition of The ~lightning Network Gossip newsletter.

Top Posts by Sats#

1. My first Taproot Asset payment over the Lightning Network 25,774 sats \ 37 comments \ 7 Oct
2. Distributed Charge: Live in the future. Bring a broom! 12,783 sats \ 11 comments \ 6 Oct
3. Introducing PayPerQ's (PPQ.AI) new Enclave Router privacy architecture 13,359 sats \ 9 comments \ 8 Oct

• See all post →stacker.news

Top posts by Comments#

1. Bitcoin Stablecoins and the Freedom to Choose 12,587 sats \ 32 comments \ 5 Oct
2. Ten Years Ago Today: The First Lightning Transaction On Bitcoin Testnet (2016) 1,109 sats \ 11 comments \ 7 Oct
3. Core Lightning v26.06.9 - fixes a vulnerability that can lead to loss of funds 9,466 sats \ 11 comments \ 7 Oct

• See full list →stacker.news

Don't Miss#

1. ZEUS Decoder - I wasn't satisified with the decoders out there so I built my own 1,934 sats \ 5 comments \ 8 Oct
2. Matt Morehouse, Rearden - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #425 Recap Podcast 2,822 sats \ 1 comments \ 8 Oct
3. Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #426 2,809 sats \ 0 comments \ 9 Oct
4. ZOLAK bar opened a Vilnius accept only Bitcoin Lightning. No cards, no cash 1,903 sats \ 8 comments \ 3 Oct
5. Ben Carman SLP779 | Lightning in x402 and Agent Payments 2,442 sats \ 7 comments \ 6 Oct
6. AskSN: How long should a P2P exchange over Lightning take? 317 sats \ 6 comments \ 6 Oct

• See 'em all →stacker.news

Top Comments#

1. @06bc1a977d: Don't forget @SwapMarket 248 sats \ 3 replies \ 6 Oct on New swap tools for going onchain <-> lightning
2. @ZezzebbulTheMysterious: And the attacker has swept 'my side' of the stale commitment transaction force closes. 204 sats \ 0 replies \ 2 Oct on Potential Core Lightning Attack - 8 Suspicious Closes Today
3. @anon: The Lightning network is not secure unless the main chain is secure. Bitcoin Core's main chain is not secure because mining is not sufficiently… 0 sats \ 1 reply \ 5 Oct on Seriously, What’s the difference betwn custodial lightning & centralized chains?

• See all comments →stacker.news

Hidden Posts by Downzaps#

1. MARA Foundation: Slipstream’s newly appointed lead maintainer, Peter Todd — 210 downzaps
2. Eclair exhausts CPU and memory from a race that orphans channel actors — 125 downzaps
3. CLN says attackers are going after unpatched nodes — 101 downzaps

• See all downzaps →stacker.news

Top Contributors#

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

1. @06bc1a977d — featured in 3 sections \ 12 posts \ 32 comments
2. @schmidty — featured in 2 sections \ 3 posts \ 0 comments
3. @m0wer — featured in 1 sections \ 4 posts \ 0 comments

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

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