LNbits, the Bitcoin payments and wallet-account platform, has called on all users to stop their servers following a wave of reported attacks.
Halting those servers may interrupt payment, checkout, and tipping services while operators await security fixes and clear restart guidance. The project confirmed it has security patches ready and will provide further updates.
The platform’s product description lists point-of-sale tools, online checkout, donation buttons, tipping, wallet accounts, and APIs. It supports both self-hosted and managed deployments over underlying Lightning funding sources.
In a separate notice dated Nov. 8, LNbits said it had disabled all instances on its hosted service as a precaution and expected services to resume within 24 hours.
For self-hosted operators, the request is to stop the LNbits instance they run for Bitcoin payments. Hosted customers instead depend on the provider’s action, which LNbits said it had already taken.
As of Nov. 9, GitHub’s latest-release API still identified v1.6.2 as LNbits’ latest stable release, published Sept. 18 with release notes describing a PostgreSQL backup hotfix.
LNbits merged pull request #4310 into its development branch on Nov. 9. The descriptions cover stronger request protections, blocking the server from making requests to itself, and disabling new-account creation by default.
No all-clear was visible on LNbits’ public timeline, and neither of its two notices announced restart clearance.
Operators face two separate questions: which released version addresses the incident, and when the project will explicitly clear servers to restart.