The Bitcoin Brief 5 September 2026

Trust us, bro

The AI-Pocalypse Continues
The AI-Pocalypse Continues
The Bitcoin Brief · 1 Sep 2026 · 01:05:45

Blockchain did clarify a bit more guidance over on Stacker News, further recommending that offline flag or or a full shutdown, although they're favoring the the offline flag. And then a couple of days later, the this so this is on the twenty eighth, they released Core Lightning version 26 o 6.7. However, they released only signed binaries, not open source the code as has been the case for pretty much every release they've ever done ever. So they've just basically said, we fixed it. Here's a signed binary. We're gonna release the the the source code in fourteen days or September 11. Their re their rationale for doing this, which on the surface seems logical, basically, know, if if they release the source for the new one, then anybody with a clanker can look at the the difference between the new source code and the old source code, figure out what's going on, and then go and try and attack old nodes that haven't updated or gone offline. But the problem is well, there's two problems there. Number one, this is a very dangerous precedent to set with, you know, just putting out closed source binaries and saying, trust us, bro. Mhmm. Especially for an open source project like Core Lightni

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