DDoS attack onto Lightning Network nodes is confirmed by Alex Bosworth, one of the developers of technology.
Alex Bosworth Twitter
The developer retwitter the screen of correspondence with BitPico in Slack, where the BitPico team announced the creation of a special tool for attack.
Slack screenshot, reposted by Bosworth
Bosworth also wrote that there was no vulnerability in the Lightning Network.
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The full 3-day agenda of the event can be found here.