| What is Lightning? |
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments, What is the Lightning Network and how can it help Bitcoin scale?, The Lightning Network Evolving Bitcoin into a layered system, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 1: Building a Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 2: Creating the Network, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 3: Completing the Puzzle and Closing the Channel, Reaching The Ground With Lightning, Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day, 2015, Lightning Network Deep Dive with Laolu "Roasbeef" Osuntokun, The #Bitcoin #Lightning Spec, Lightning Network Glossary |
| What is Lightning? |
Introduction |
Lightning Layers |
How the Lightning Layers Fit Together, A Lightning Application Design Perspective |
| What is Lightning? |
Introduction |
History of LN |
History of the Lightning Network, The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like, The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta |
| What is Lightning? |
Lightning ≈ Bitcoin |
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Lightning ≈ Bitcoin |
| What is Lightning? |
Lightning ≈ Bitcoin |
Revisting tx malleability |
SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Transaction Malleability: Threats and Solutions |
| How Layers fit together |
Overview |
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How the layers of Lightning Fit Together Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together |
Update |
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The Update Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together |
Transfer |
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The Transfer Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together |
Multihop |
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The Multihop Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together |
Others |
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The Base an Transport Layers Seminar Video |
| Transfer |
Payment channel |
General concept |
Payment Channel |
| Transfer |
Payment channel |
Public channel |
Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?, The open_channel Message |
| Transfer |
Payment channel |
Private channel |
Exploring Lightning Network Routing |
| Transfer |
Payment channel |
Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing |
Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing video, Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing algorithm paper |
| Transfer |
Payment channel |
Exhausted channels |
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| Transfer |
Payment channel |
Channel reserve |
Rationale |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
BOLT |
BOLT #3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Funding Transaction |
Funding Transactions as a Generalized Design Pattern for Offchain Protocols, Funding Transaction Output, The funding_created Message |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Commitment Transaction |
Commitment transactions, Commitment Transaction |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Closing Transaction |
Closing a Channel in Lighting Network, Closing Transaction |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Penalty Transaction |
Lightning Network ‘Penalty Scenario’ Works in Old State Channel Incident, Revoked Transaction Close Handling |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Mutual Close |
Distinguishing mutual and unilateral channel closing in the Bitcoin blockchain, Mutual Close Handling |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Unilateral Close |
Unilateral Close Handling: Local Commitment Transaction |
| Transfer |
Transactions |
Fee negotiation |
BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Overview |
What Are Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)? Application In Lightning Network & Payment Channels, Lightning Networks Part II: Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs) |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Hashlock |
HTLC implementation Bitcoin Core |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Timelocks |
Bitcoin’s Time Locks, Timelock, Bitcoin Timelocks in a nutshell |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Revocation Key |
Lightning Networks Part I: Revocable Transactions |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Relative Locktime/CLTV |
BIP 65 |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Hash Pre-image |
What is a hash pre-image as it is used for the breach remedy?, Offered HTLC Outputs |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
payment basepoint/revocation basepoint |
Key Derivation |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
Per-commit secret/Commitment number |
Key Derivation |
| Transfer |
HTLC |
HTLC fulfillment/failure |
Removing an HTLC: update_fulfill_htlc, update_fail_htlc, and update_fail_malformed_htlc |
| Transfer |
Payment |
Invoice |
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| Transfer |
Payment |
Payment Request |
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| Update |
Invoices |
Bolt11 encoding |
BOLT #11: Invoice Protocol for Lightning Payments |
| Update |
Gossip |
Gossip Protocol |
BOLT #7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery, Gossip Protocol/Path Finding seminar video |
| Update |
Transactions |
LN-Penalty |
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| Update |
Transactions |
Eltoo payment channels |
eltoo: A Simple Layer2 Protocol for Bitcoin, Eltoo and the far future with Christian Decker |
| Update |
Trampoline Payments |
Overview |
Trampoline Payments Seminar Video |
| Multihop |
Sphinx |
Overview |
Sphinx Packet, Using Sphinx to Improve Onion Routing Circuit Construction (short paper)⋆, Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format, Security Analysis of the Lightning Network |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Overview |
Onion routing seminar video, Sphinx and Onion routing, Onion Routing with HTLCs on the Lightning Network explained! - Beginner / Experts |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Public vs. Private channel |
Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?, Exploring Lightning Network Routing |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Channel announcements |
BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Routing fees |
The Lightning Network (Part 2) – Routing Fee Economics |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Expiry delta |
cltv_expiry_delta Selection |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Route hints |
Exploring Lightning Network Routing |
| Multihop |
Onion Routing |
Keysend (formally known as spontaneous payments) |
Keysend seminar video |
| Base |
Framing and feature negotiation |
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| Transport |
Noise Protocol Framework |
Overview |
The Noise Protocol Framework, The Noise Protocol Framework (video) |
| Transport |
Noise Protocol Framework |
Noise XK |
Handshake patterns, Noise Explorer |
| Atomic Swaps |
Introduction |
Overview |
What are Atomic Swaps? A Beginner’s Guide, Atomic Swaps: How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins, Atomic Swaps, Atomic Swaps on the Lightning Network |
| Atomic Swaps |
Submarine swaps vs. reverse swaps |
Overview |
Submarine swaps seminar video (first 25:30), Onboarding the Masses: Submarine Swaps, Submarine Swaps on the Lightning Network |
| Atomic Swaps |
Loops |
Overview |
Loops seminar video (starting at 25:52), Announcing Lightning Loop Alpha: An Easier Way to Receive on Lightning, Loop Out In-depth |
| Limitations |
Overview |
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Lightning Network 2.0, Major Limitations of the Lightning Network |
| Limitations |
Update layer |
Incentive problems in the network |
Incentive problems in the network seminar video |
| Limitations |
Update layer |
Fee management |
Fee management seminar video |
| Limitations |
Onion Routing |
Routing failures |
Routing failures seminar video |
| Limitations |
Payment UX |
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Payment UX seminar video |
| Limitations |
Lightweight clients |
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Limitations of lightweight clients seminar video |
| Limitations |
Running Lightning in Production |
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Running Lightning in Production seminar video |
| Limitations |
Failure modes in action |
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Failure modes in action repo |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future |
Proposal States |
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Lightning Specification 1.1 Proposal States, Lightning User Experience: A Day in the Life of Carol |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future |
Liquidity |
Splicing |
Splicing seminar video, Channel top-up, Splicing Proposal |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future |
Liquidity |
Dual Funded channels |
Dual funded channels seminar video, Proposal for Advertising Channel Liquidity |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future |
Payments |
Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning |
AMP: Atomic Multi-Path Payments mailing list post, Atomic Multi-Path Payments seminar video, Base AMP, Specific fee routing for multi-path payments |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future |
Routing |
Rendezvous routing |
Rendezvous mechanism on top of Sphinx, Rendezvous Routing seminar video |
| The Far Future |
Routing |
Just in time routing |
Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0 |
| The Far Future |
Onboarding |
Multiparty channels / channel factories |
What are Channel Factories and how do they work?, Multi-party channels/Channel factories seminar video, Onboarding the Masses: Channel Factories |
| The Far Future |
Payments |
Decorelation |
Payment Decorrelation |
| The Far Future |
Payments |
Streaming Payments |
BOLT 11, real time micro payments, and route redundancy |
| The Far Future |
Payments |
Refunds |
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| The Far Future |
Payments |
Fast Failure |
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| The Far Future |
Scripts |
Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA |
Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA |
| Privacy considerations |
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How the Lightning Network Layers Privacy on Top of Bitcoin |
| Privacy considerations |
Watchtowers |
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Incentivizing payment channel watchtower, Trustless Watchtowers, Architecture of LND Watchtowers Incentivizing Payment Channel Watchtowers |
| Privacy considerations |
Channel probing attack for channel balance |
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On the Difficulty of Hiding the Balance of Lightning Network Channels |
| Privacy considerations |
Channel probing attack for channel balance code exercise |
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Code exercise seminar introduction, Channel probing attack code exercise repo |
| Privacy considerations |
Payment decorrelation |
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Decorrelation of Lightning Payments |
| Privacy considerations |
SNARKs |
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Better privacy with SNARKs |
| Privacy considerations |
Open ended questions |
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Discussion questions |
| Security/Attack vectors |
Attack vector intro |
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Attack vector intro seminar video |
| Security/Attack Vectors |
Denial of Service attacks |
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State of the Crypto: Lightning Network DDoS’d, Payment channel congestion via spam-attack |
| Considerations |
Desired topology of a high functional network |
Overview |
Network Topology creation/maintenance seminar video |
| Considerations |
Desired topology of a high functional network |
Autopilot |
Improving the autopilot of bitcoin’s lightning network, Autopilot PR in c-lightning |
| Considerations |
Desired topology of a high functional network |
Channel management |
Lightning network topology Considerations, Rebalancing in the lightning network: Analysis and implications |
| Considerations |
Desired topology of a high functional network |
Cyclic Superhubs |
Cyclic Superhubs as Solution Towards Reasonable Lightning Network Topology |
| Considerations |
Neutrino |
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Exploring Neutrino, Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning |
| Considerations |
Pitfalls of concurrent requests |
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| Considerations |
Broadcasting channel updates |
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What is the status of the Lightning Network? |
| Implementations |
LND |
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Lightning Network Daemon |
| Implementations |
ptarmigan |
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Ptarmigan |
| Implementations |
electrum |
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Electrum Implementation in Python, see electrum/ln*.py |
| Implementations |
rust-lightning |
Incomplete implementation |
Rust-Lightning |
| Implementations |
c-lightning |
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c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C |
| Implementations |
Eclair |
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Eclair - A scala implementation of the Lightning Network |
| Implementations |
DotNetLightning |
Incomplete implementation |
Lightning network daemon with F# |
| Implementations |
geelightning |
Incomplete implementation |
geelightning in Rust |
| Setting up a node |
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Bitcoin Lightning Network #1: Can I compile and run a node?, Beginner’s Guide to ️Lightning️ on a Raspberry Pi, My Lightning Node setup with c-lightning, Fastest and cheapest way to get your own Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD |