Signet is a new way to implement the Bitcoin testnet, it offers a stable centralized testnet that developers can easily use.
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The team at BTC Pay Server published an article introducing their Payment Requests feature.
It allows you to get paid in cryptocurrency just by sharing a simple URL using a new type of time-sensitive inoice page built into BTCPay.
BTCPay Server is an open-source cross platform, self-hosted bitcoin server compatible with Bitpay API.
A self hosted Lightning Network donation plugin has been released by Developer brndnhrbrt.
The plugin allows users to quickly and safely host a Lightning invoice generator in QR Code or text format.
It is based on Node.js and LND REST’s API.
Simplicity is a low-level programming language for building smart contracts. It enables developers to build sophisticated and reliable smart contracts which are not possible on blockchains such as Ethereum’s EVM.
BitMEX research developed a fork monitoring tool that can be used to monitor network and protocol upgrades for soft and hard forks for Bitcoin and BitcoinCash. They plan to include different implementations of Bitcoin nodes such as Bcoin, BTCD and Libbitcoin which might be helpful to detect consensus bugs such as CVE-2018-17144 that was discovered last September. They also announced that the source code for the tool will be made available soon.
Nayuta, a team currently developing a new Lightning Network implementation called ptarmigan, announced the release of a wireshark plugin for the Lightning Network (BOLT) protocol. The plugin is hosted here.
It’s alpha version, but it can decode some BOLT message. Currently, this software works for Nayuta’s implementation(ptarmigan) and Éclair. When ptarmigan is compiled with some option, it write out key information file. This Wireshark plug-in decode packet using that file. When you use Éclair, this software parse log file.