A simple explanation of the cryptography underlying Spark, a layer 2 built using statechains.

This list is republished and was originally posted on Reddit /LightningNetwork by user jcfy.

Microsoft confirmed a Windows USB worm has been swapping Bitcoin addresses in the clipboard since February 2026. A hardware wallet won't save you if you don't verify.

Trump's June 22 EO mandates federal PQC migration by 2030-2031. Bitcoin's BIP-360 merged in February. BIP-361 followed in April. The government is catching up.

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Wavespace's wavecard uses NWC to pull sats from your self-hosted Lightning node at every VISA purchase. MiCA compliant as of July 1, 2026.

CZ mused about freezing Satoshi's coins. BIP-361 already proposes a 5-year sunset on legacy signatures. No consensus. No timeline. The math is ugly.

Polymarket now credits Bitcoin Lightning deposits in under a second via Spark's zero-conf rails. Self-custodial. No node management. One SDK.

BitGo shipped four Bitcoin quantum-risk tools on July 9. No machine can touch Bitcoin today. The work starts now precisely because of that.

Miner support for BIP-110 sits at 0% heading into the August signaling window. Saylor and Adam Back both came out against it. Here's why the consensus immune system is working.

Saylor published 110 reasons BIP-110 is a bad idea. With the lock-in window hitting in early August and miner support below 2%, the proposal looks dead, but the governance question it raises isn't.

DOG Mode targets Bitcoin Core's relay defaults, raising the size ceiling to 3.9M weight units and dropping the dust limit to 1 sat. No BIP required.