Hello there!

Today I am happy to announce the first alpha version of a new Bitcoin backend called "folgore" with BIP 157 support available https://github.com/coffee-tools/folgore

Why another backend plugin?

In many years I see born different core lightning backend plugins, such as sauron, trustedcoin, and btcli4j (where I am the implementor) where only the last one implement a full feature bitcoin backend plugin with multiple client support including bitcoin core pruning mode, but it is written in Kotlin and in the ecosystem there is no much love for the JVM.

So I decided to rewrite it in Rust but also try to expand the clients supported by including a new experimental client that is nakamoto https://github.com/cloudhead/nakamoto to support a light way client

Call for tester In the last period I see that there are a lot of requests for a real alternative backend for core lightning, and I feel that folgore can be a good fit also to replace the default Bitcoin plugin in core lightning, but there is a long run before declaring this plugin stable, so please help out to test the plugin and report bugs and help to iterate faster in our development process.

P.S: You can install the plugin with coffee just follow the following docs

Happy Hacking 🔨