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Inside Core Lightning’s AI-Triggered Security Crisis
The Bugs, the Blackout, and What CLN Node Operators Need to Know 2026 has not been a good year for Blockstream; for fourteen days starting in late August 2026, anyone running a Core Lightning node was asked to operate on trust rather than evidence. No public CVE details, no exploit description, no severity breakdown just an instruction from the maintainers to upgrade to a signed emergency release, or take your node offline. That was the announcement! Pretty scary stuff, considering all the hacks we’ve seen in the Bitcoin space this year and not a great way to communicate with your
What Are Nostr Payment Targets?
Although Nostr came from the Bitcoin community and early support came from Bitcoiners, Nostr has never had a “native” currency. From the beginning, the protocol has treated money the same way it treats everything else: as an event, published to relays, that clients choose whether and how to render. What’s changed recently is which kinds of payment events those are. Zaps had hit a ceiling, and nostr looks to expand beyond its Bitcoin-only roots! The protocol is evolving, and it has to if it is to reach users outside the Bitcoin ecosystem. The newest addition, NIP A3 “payto: Payment Targets”
3,400 BTC Returned To The Liquid Network
Liquid Network Follow-Up: 3,400 BTC Returned, But the Math on Recovering the Rest Doesn’t Work. It’s been a wild 24 hours in the Bitcoin space, while the main chain remains unaffected. Tick tick, next block! While Bitcoin’s price hasn’t moved dramatically, the Liquid side chain has been decimated and, ironically, has had more eyes on it than ever before because the base asset, L-BTC, is unbacked after a hack. The self-described white hats behind Liquid Network’s $320 million exploit have made good on part of their word. Of the roughly 4000 BTC drained from the federation’s reserve, 3,400 BTC has