Eclair Fixes Two BTC Lightning Bugs That Leaked Bitcoin Fees
Two October merges close fee-drain paths in dual funding, splicing and Eclair-signer mode, but the fixes sit above the packaged v0.14.3 release, so node operators must verify their build.
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Two October merges close fee-drain paths in dual funding, splicing and Eclair-signer mode, but the fixes sit above the packaged v0.14.3 release, so node operators must verify their build.
The risk concentrates in BIP39-seed, xprv-import, and 4.0.x Electrum wallets. The remedy is a fresh export, since upgrading the software does not recover key material already lost with old backups.
The $190K cap is the headline, but the real story is LND as a single-vendor credential risk now that attackers have demonstrated a working drain against the dominant Lightning node stack.
Zero-confirmation credits collapse the deposit window from up to an hour to milliseconds, lowering the friction cost every prediction-market trader has paid since Polymarket launched.
Lightning funding cuts the on-ramp to a seconds-long flow for prediction-market traders, sidestepping bank rails, KYC, and the multi-day transfer windows.