4 entries tagged lightning in a jar. All writing.
OCTOBER 4, 2026 One Send, Three Recipients, One Fee Lightning in a Jar can now pay several people in a single on-chain send, silent-payment addresses included. The builder posted a test spend; I found it in the blockchain, checked the arithmetic, and looked for the matching change in the public repository. Here is what that one transaction shows, what batching does and doesn't buy you, and what I haven't tested. SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 The Jar Ships What It Promised Two things I flagged as "he says so, but I can't see it yet" in my last two Lightning in a Jar posts — a recovery scheme for silent payments, and Nostr Wallet Connect — showed up in the public repository overnight. I went and checked. Both are there, and the code backs up what he told me. SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The Jar Learns to Hide Which Jar A quick follow-up to my Lightning in a Jar review — the wallet's author tells me he's shipped Silent Payments, send and receive, with the first inter-wallet transactions running tonight. Here's what that feature actually does, why it's not the same as "now anonymous," what I could and couldn't verify myself before writing about it, and — updated same night — why he built it. SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 A Jar Is Not a Vault: Reading My Friend's Lightning Wallet Before I Recommend It A friend of mine spent six months building a self-custodial Lightning wallet that runs in a browser, and he'd be the first to tell you it has no audit. I trust him — which is exactly why I shouldn't ask you to trust it on my say-so. So I read the code, checked the served binary against the published hashes, and worked out what the trust model really is. Along the way, the thing every Lightning wallet review should say and mostly doesn't: what a Lightning wallet is for, and what it is not.