Bitcoin Lightning Network

The podcast Bowl After Bowl is broadcasting its 464th episode live on its self-hosted streaming setup, announced as 'sparking up now'. The show, which blends cannabis culture with bitcoin and Lightning Network talk, uses the Owncast platform and promotes value-for-value support. It is being shared within niche streaming and bitcoin communities.

Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-focused arm Spiral has issued a call for moonshot ideas aimed at pushing Bitcoin payments forward. The company, which has previously funded open-source Bitcoin development including the Lightning Network, is soliciting ambitious proposals to make paying with Bitcoin more practical at scale. The appeal is drawing attention from developers and crypto observers weighing which ideas could make Bitcoin usable in everyday transactions.

The Lightning Network Daemon is testing a new guardrail designed to protect routing nodes from extreme external Bitcoin fee estimates. The feature aims to prevent on-chain fee spikes from disrupting Lightning channel management and causing unnecessary costs or failures. Bitcoin developers and node operators are following the update closely as fee volatility continues to be a practical concern for Lightning deployments.