C-Lightning Development Blog Begins

If you follow the lightning-dev mailing list, scour the c-lightning repository and my fork of the lightning-documentation repository you can piece together what I’m doing to develop bitcoin lightning. You should also keep track of the lnd repository to see what…

C-Lightning Prototype With Segregated Witness Anchor

That took longer than I’d hoped, but it was only about 4 days (the rest was random cleanups that inevitably occur along the way).

The downside of having one’s own code to do all the bitcoin stuff is that changes…

The Joy of Bitcoin Transaction Fees

In my lightning prototype, I punted on bitcoin fees; there’s a commandline option to set the fee amount, and that’s sent to the peer. This is clearly wrong, and when I wrote the first cut of the protocol spec, I decided to address it. That’s iterated several times as…

Designing Packet Protocols

I wrote the original full dynamic NAT code for linux (as part of netfilter) which gave me fairly strong opinions about how a packet protocol should look. These are the first principles from which I considered the lightning protocol spec.

Sidechains And Lightning, The New New Bitcoin — Jon Evans, Techcrunch

Good post explaining sidechains and introducing a new idea announced recently that claims to enable instant transactions using Bitcoin, by effectively taking the blockchain out of micro-payment transactions:

[A] group has released…