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What Happened at TABConf 2025: The Day Lightning's Co-Creator Agreed with Paul Sztorc, The Skeptic

What Happened at TABConf 2025: The Day Lightning's Co-Creator Agreed with Paul Sztorc, The Skeptic

June 29, 2026

In October 2025, Paul Sztorc stood on a TABConf stage and told Lightning developers that their decade of work had been a waste of time. Then he opened the floor. What happened next reshaped the debate forever.

 Paul Sztorc's June 3 Twitter Space: Rusty Russell Quits, the $5m Round Closes, and What Is a Fair Launch?

Paul Sztorc's June 3 Twitter Space: Rusty Russell Quits, the $5m Round Closes, and What Is a Fair Launch?

June 4, 2026

The bulk of the call was spent doing two things the project has rarely done as openly before: defending the airdrop mechanic to a substantive critic for over thirty minutes, and walking through the technical and economic case for BIP 300's miner-voting design without retreating to slogans.