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I’ve covered the creation of new lightning network backend plugin for BTCPay server in the previous post so if you want a long winded post about it read it there. This is part 2, primarily focusing on the new improvement I’ve added to it - automated treasury management. Spark’s security model (statechain) is not everyones favorite cup of it. Its not even mine favorite cup of tea. But I like the simplicity. And after spending years on purity discussions about LN approaches I’m past them. Because I really don’t care about yet another screaming cunt saying that this is bad. It solves an issue. The issue being that I don’t want to deal with liquidity all the time. Or expose my somewhat decently sized routing node to every piece of software under the sun. Or run tons of nodes just for the sake of separating things apart. ...

I’ve stumbled upon Bitkarrot’s repo a while back and said to myself, “Why not visualize the Euro to Satoshi exchange rate over time?”. As that was the 1337th side project idea I had, I managed to find the restraint to not start it immediately. But as luck would have it I got some free credits from Anthropic to try out their new Claude Code Web which meant that now I had a time sensitive excuse to build an EURO version of it (together with a bunch of other stuff, more on that in another post). ...