Andras

@lightning ⚡️

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The hardest problems are rarely solved by adding more complexity to the solution -- they are solved by reframing the question until a simpler, clearer answer reveals itself.

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Announcing LND v0.21: Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down 🌱

The 21st release lands on the number every bitcoiner knows 🟠

Onion messaging, private message relay without revealing sender or route 🧅

Simple taproot channels hit production for on-chain privacy 🌳

Native SQL and better sync for faster queries and startup ⏩

Read more and upgrade today: https://t.co/DZwJEIfhof

[Hannah Rosenberg⚡ @hmichellerose]

I made a Claude skill for setting up Lightning nodes!

The skill, run-litd, can set up a wide variety of nodes, full node, pruned node, neutrino back-end, build a remote signer, connect to a remote signer, etc. and run on mainnet or signet!

You are guided through choosing the type of node that you need and then the skills builds a properly configured node, that means a config file, a systemd service, etc.

You can find it in this collection of Lightning skills…

https://t.co/jUZ690Kj5O

Give it a try and maybe tell your Lightning newb vibe coding friends!

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

I was reading last night and this line stuck out:

“Any business that wanted to stay competitive had no choice but to embrace the new technology. The result was an irreversible acceleration in the pace of business life.”

What technology do you think this is referring to?

Reveal later today 🤭

[Michael Levin⚡️ @MichaelLevin]

Why doesn’t @OpenAI have an offering like Teams for Claude (seat based pricing) for smaller companies. Feels like a massive gap. Only option to get Codex (without pathetic limits) is usage based pricing. I think this packaging gap affects their market share. cc @thsottiaux @sama

[Alex Bosworth @alexbosworth]

LN is a small miracle of decentralization and the irony is that before it launched it was seen as a centralizing force. The paradox of decentralization is also that if you do it right you are making a platform someone else can come along and build some centralized thing on top of

[Andras @bhandras]

@ivancorreces @levelsio @cursor_ai @boltdotnew @heyglif @tripoai Thanks! Glad you like it! Enjoy!

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Bitcoin doesn't care if you're a human or agent.

Why do agents choose bitcoin and Lightning over legacy systems built for humans? Because they know that bitcoin is the ultimate money for AI... 🤖

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Bitcoin is an agent's best friend. With L402 SDK, agents can discover an API, pay 1 sat on Lightning, and get access. All from a single prompt.

Devs, vibe coders, and agents are building the AI economy with Lightning. You can too. ⚡

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Lightning Terminal is a web dashboard for managing Lightning nodes at scale. Automatically manage routing fees and channel opens. Visualize routing data. Monitor your node from anywhere.

We just shipped passkey support for device-based auth and persistent sessions. Authenticate once. Stay logged in across page reloads. No passwords needed.

Connect your node and build the future with bitcoin. https://t.co/ZwdQUa7kTM

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Agents want money. Bitcoin makes it possible. And now it works with agent-native workflows. Today we're releasing L402 SDK as part of our suite of AI tools, a client SDK for agentic payments on Lightning with L402.

Embeds directly into library-based agent frameworks. TypeScript and Python bindings. Works with Vercel AI SDK and LangChain.

📖 Import a library instead of using a CLI
🛡️ Per-request, hourly, daily, and per-domain budget controls
🌐 WASM for browsers, serverless functions, edge environments

Start building the agent economy with machine-scale payments on Lightning.

https://t.co/n4f1wcVxHc

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Here's the blog post to point your agent to and spin up a Lightning node: https://t.co/FhXm5yTIvU

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun @roasbeef]

https://t.co/xpzYv2uYw2

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

We're hiring an AI Product Engineer!

Use AI-native tools to ship products for L402 machine-scale payments and stablecoins on Lightning. Build for agents, automate workflows, create developer demos. Operate autonomously. Move fast and fix things.

Forge the path forward for AI and bitcoin. Apply here: https://t.co/CIPm11VeHx

[Alex Bosworth @alexbosworth]

I often quote or paraphrase Satoshi, intentionally or unintentionally. It's because his corpus of quotes is so limited you can easily read it all and it's also quite high signal so it's fun and interesting to read. Not to deify, but BTC is not just code, it's also a set of ideas.

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Running a Lightning node in production means managing configs, upgrades, secrets, and scaling. Helm charts package all of that into a single deployable unit on Kubernetes. One command to install, one file to customize.

Today we're releasing the LND Helm chart, which we use to run our own bitcoin infrastructure. Production-ready defaults, available on GitHub Container Registry.

https://t.co/lgYTyBVzS8

[Ryan Gentry @RyanTheGentry]

Yesterday, @Square auto-enabled Lightning payments for millions of US merchants.

Today, I asked my agent to find an image generation API, and generate a logo. No API key, no signup, no credit card.

The same rails that let you buy coffee now let your agent buy compute.

[Alex Bosworth @alexbosworth]

Static Loop In is a good way to eliminate some of those spare UTXOs you have laying around and consolidate your funds into your channels. The flow is pretty easy, just spend the entire UTXO into the address it shows you and then "Loop In". Poof the balance appears in your channel