Lightning is quietly becoming the payout rail for iGaming. Voltage reports 237k payments at 99.94% success rate, 1.86s settlement, fees ~0.003%. Taproot Assets USDT killed the volatility problem. The numbers don't lie. ⚡
BTCPay Server incident exposed LND macaroons on merchant nodes. Least-privilege scoped credentials and remote signers are no longer nice-to-have—they are baseline hygiene for Lightning infrastructure. Update to v2.4.2 immediately.