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Morning Edition · Monday, September 28, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
Core Lightning Patches a Path That Let a Revoked Channel State Escape the Cheating Penalty
The fix shipped in v26.06.7, ten artificial-intelligence models audited the code during the embargo, and some older Docker images missed the patch.
Core Lightning, one of the main node implementations of Bitcoin's Lightning Network, fixed a channel-close defect that could have let a peer broadcast an old, revoked channel state without triggering the penalty that is supposed to punish c…
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