Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #424

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for upgrading the offchain protocols of the Lightning Network to post-quantum security. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. News ● Proposal for a post-quantum Lightning Network: Ahmet Kurt posted to Delving Bitcoin about a new proposal for upgrading the offchain surfaces of the Lightning Network to be quantum-secure, called PQLN, building on the layer-by-layer analysis covered in Newsletter #408. The author and his collaborators also published a paper on the topic and a working implementation based on rust-lightning is available for testing.

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