We’ve been taking a break for the past two months while working on a website upgrade. Since we did not cover news in that time, we decided to make a series of recap articles covering the last two months, starting with news related Bitcoin Core and going through Lightning Network and its related updates.

Piggybacking information within payment_preimage is a suggestion by developer Jose Femenias, it is used to enable sharing a common secret seed between an offline device and an online LN node, both the devices calculate the same per_transaction_secret, the node encrypts the PIN within the payment_preimage and then when the LN wallet receives the payment_preimage it decrypts it showing the PIN, this is provided as proof of payment to the offline device.