Rusty Russell
Rusty Russell

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).

Editor of Blockstream Engineering Blog
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Rusty Russell
Apr 14 · 6 min read

Australian Tax Office Treatment of Bitcoin (etc) Forks: Trouble Ahead

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Rusty Russell
Aug 21, 2019 · 4 min read

New Release: c-lightning 0.7.2

Extended plugin features and dynamic add & remove

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Rusty Russell
May 28, 2019 · 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, 2019 · 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, 2019 · 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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