SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti - Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?
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/2019/06/2...
Million Channels Project Github: https://github.com/rustyrussell/milli...
Million Channel Project proposal: / proposal-the-million-channel-lightning-pro...
Rusty links:
Twitter: / rusty_twit
Github: https://github.com/rustyrussell
Prior appearance SLP23: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/23/
Joe Netti links:
Twitter: / joenetti
GitHub: https://github.com/nettijoe96
Sponsor links:
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Breez Tech: http://breez.technology
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