{"id":68416,"date":"2022-10-11T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68416"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:59:23","slug":"complex-bitcoin-transaction-caused-a-lightning-network-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/complex-bitcoin-transaction-caused-a-lightning-network-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex Bitcoin transaction caused a Lightning Network outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burak Kedjeli, founder of the Bitmatrix platform, created and executed a complex transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain that temporarily took down part of the Lightning Network (LN) micropayment network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I just did a 998-of-999 tapscript multisig, and it only cost $4.90 in transaction fees.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CvBHaRAqPu\">https:\/\/t.co\/CvBHaRAqPu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burak (@brqgoo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brqgoo\/status\/1579216353780957185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">Second-layer solution<\/a> LN is designed for fast and cheap BTC transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-multisignature-what-is-a-ring-signature\">a multisig<\/a>-transaction, using 998 private keys out of 999 maximum. For a transfer of less than a dollar in BTC, he paid a fee of about $4.90.<\/p>\n<p>The operation caused <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lightningnetwork\/lnd\/issues\/7002\">problems for LN node operators<\/a>, whose clients could not synchronise with the network. This was caused by exceeding the maximum size of the witness script.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/rxVQusEkqfGNYP2oJIyh-q4t5_Ml91SpnfoUPioNJ511iFI4FqfCiklzjOhW9QgRUprLYY9KTqQwy3TldGn3Hnhb_K5qFFHhwj0YPZOgL-OM4M9sszvMLuUhijqxQHxW7X1YVSuUH_eO3HSpRGky5hQcV1ZUoWhnrTJcVhs20SEorLfqgb2PIHDJjg\" alt=\"Complex Bitcoin transaction caused Lightning Network outage\"\/><figcaption>Source: GitHub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Developers found that the outage was caused by a bug in the btcd parser library. It checked the script-size limit against an older code version preserved since SegWit v0.<\/p>\n<p>The team has already fixed the bug.<\/p>\n<p>In May, former head of Meta&#8217;s payments division David Marcus <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/david-marcus-launches-lightning-network-focused-startup\">launched an LN-focused startup<\/a> Lightspark.<\/p>\n<p>In September, MicroStrategy announced <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-to-develop-enterprise-solutions-based-on-the-lightning-network\">the creation of enterprise solutions<\/a> based on an L2 solution for scaling Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burak Kedjeli, founder of the Bitmatrix platform, created and executed a complex transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain that temporarily took down part of the Lightning Network (LN) micropayment network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,325],"class_list":["post-68416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-lightning-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68418,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68416\/revisions\/68418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}