Rusty Russell

Rusty is a Linux kernel dev who wandered into Blockstream, and is currently trying to produce a prototype and spec for bitcoin lightning. Hodls bitcoin (only).

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Rusty Russell

May 28 · 1 min read

The Cost of Bitcoin’s Security

Fears over the declining block reward are real.

I hypothesize several hundred billion, in present value USD, would be an adequate security budget — Dan Held…

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Rusty Russell

Feb 1 · 1 min read

Quick Lightning Channel Stats (31-Jan-19)

My mainnet node sees 23304 unique channels (technically 45958 half-channels) from 2902…

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Rusty Russell

Jan 5 · 1 min read

Proposal: The Million Channel (Lightning) Project

I’ve had this idea for a while, but I’ve never got around to it so I’m calling publicly for collaborators: https://github.com/rustyrussell/million-channels-project

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