The Litecoin development team, David Burkett and Loshan, have released another Litecoin Core update, v0.21.5.5. Just a couple of weeks ago, v0.21.5.4 was released to address recent network and MWEB-related issues. This latest release continues that work with important improvements to MWEB validation, node reliability, wallet functionality, mining performance, and overall network security. The update represents Litecoin’s continued development and hardening following recent MWEB-related...

Yesterday, the Litecoin network saw a rare 13-block reorg tied to MWEB transaction validation. In certain situations, nodes could accept and pass along invalid MWEB transactions due to a kernel sum balance not being enforced, allowing those transactions to be mined before the network corrected itself and removed them through a reorg. Importantly, there has been no confirmed loss of Litecoin (LTC) user funds, and Litecoin’s 100% uptime remains intact. In response, developers released an...

I started writing this book in 2022, not knowing if I would ever publish it. For a long time, it was just notes, ideas, and moments. Things that felt worth sharing, but not without consequence. It follows my path through Bitcoin, Litecoin, Satoshi, and Charlie, and the encounters along the way that shaped how I see it now. In 2011, Satoshi stepped away. In one of his final messages, he wrote that he had moved on to “other things.” What those “other things” were remains unknown. This book is...