A Few Ways We Can Upgrade Lightning Network Payment Routing
In order to develop into a protocol usable by the entire world, certain scaling improvements for Lightning need to be considered.The Lightning Network is a well-developed, fast-growing, Layer 2 transaction solution on the Bitcoin network. More and more services and exchanges are integrating it, the liquidity available for routing payments is growing, and more applications and ways for users to interact with it are being developed each year. It also has many problems to overcome in the long run: The scalability limits how many channels can be opened or closed on-chain at a time.....
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Bitfury just announced a white paper, in collaboration with Olaoluwa Osuntokun and others from the Lightning Network team, proposing a new algorithmic solution to Lightning Network’s routing problem. A hybrid routing algorithm is proposed which, according to a press release, ensures that “routes can be found as quickly as possible.” According to the whitepaper the algorithm uses a “proactive update of the node’s routing table,” and a “reactive collection of information based on a routing request,” allowing for connections between any payment channel. The whitepaper states that the hybrid....
In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” the hosts are joined by Lightning developer Joost Jager to discuss Lightning Network routing.
Bitfury Group has recently introduced a 40-page white paper, which proposes a routing solution for the Lightning Network (LN). Dubbed “Flare,” the concept is an approach to payment routing that involves nodes gathering data concerning the LN topology. The researchers performed tests with the routing algorithm and found it to be scalable with at least....
Progress on the bitcoin lightning network continues to advance. Following a promising trial of its routing network last week by French startup Acinq, Montreal-based Blockstream has announced that it has sent the first end-to-end transaction over the Lightning Network, a highly-anticipated top layer for the bitcoin network designed to boost transaction capacity. What the team called "Lightning's first strike" saw its developers send a transaction across a test version of the network successfully to another party, a process that included invoicing that party for bitcoin and routing....
Learn to manage and run a Lightning node at a profit. Also, discover various Lightning Network problems and how to address them. What are the various Lightning Network problems?Routing fees, channels being fraudulently closed, the exposure of nodes to online theft and malicious attacks are a few problems with the Lightning Network.Routing fees are among the vital Lightning Network problems that are required to transfer payments between channels. However, nodes do not get any reward in return for facilitating payments. Also, fraudulent channel closure, which means one party closes the....