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cover of episode SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti - Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?

SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti - Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?

2019/8/12
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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

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