LSP, VLS and Bitcoin Education
Interested in controlling your node using the gRPC protocol?
If you do, please join us in the next live coding session that will take place next week on Thursday 12, October, 2023. Soon you'll be able to find more information on:
https://community.corelightning.org/c/events/
Last week, I attended for the first time to the LSP (Lightning Service Provider) spec meeting:
https://github.com/BitcoinAndLightningLayerSpecs/lsp
It was super interesting. As far as I understand, the goal of an LSP is to help users connect to the lightning network while maintaining self-custody. If this is a subject you are interested in I encourage you to join those meetings.
But maybe you prefer reading articles and source code more than attending meetings, so here you can check:
the article What Are Turbo Channels: [...] Turbo channels are basically 0-confirmation channels, which means the channel can be used before the channel opening transaction get mined in a Bitcoin block [...]
the article Lightning services where they dive into the different ways an LSP can open a channel and the unique user experiences they can offer.
https://github.com/breez/lspd which implement a simple deamon that provides LSP services to Breez clients. This work with lnd nodes and cln nodes. For cln nodes they wrote a plugin in Go. You might be interested in looking at it.
Beside taking some time to learn about LSPs, I also watched Open-Source Lightning Innovation with Ken Sedgwick from VLS - Blockstream Talk 30 where Ken Sedgwick presents what he is doing with his project VLS (Validating Lightning Signer).
What is VLS?
VLS separates your Lightning private keys and security rule validation from your Lightning node, into a discrete signing device. This improves LN security for users by reducing the attack surface.
Maybe this is a topic you want to know more about, so you can check:
And to end that newsletter, if you want to fill up on BITCOIN energy you can check that short clip with Lisa Neigut about Bitcoin Education.
Have a nice day, See you next time, Tony Aldon https://lnroom.live