SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti - Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?
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So Bitcoin’s Lightning Network exists and works today. Can it scale up to a million channels? Rusty Russell (Blockstream Elements Project, working on c-lightning and the Lightning Spec) and Joe Netti (recently interned at Blockstream) join me to talk about their work on the Million Channels Project. We talk about:

• Why the Project was started

• Set up 

• Regtest and Gossip

• Routing

• Optimisations needed

• An update on c-lightning

Links:

• Million Channel Blockstream results post: https://eng.blockstream.com/2019/06/24/letting-channels-bloom/) 

• Million Channels Project Github: https://github.com/rustyrussell/million-channels-project) 

• Million Channel Project proposal: https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/proposal-the-million-channel-lightning-project-d8c34666d6d4) 

Rusty links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/rusty_twit) 

• Github: https://github.com/rustyrussell) 

• Prior appearance SLP23: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/23/) 

Joe Netti links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeNetti) 

• GitHub: https://github.com/nettijoe96)

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