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Lightning Network

The Bitcoin Lightning Network

The Lightning Network is a "layer 2" payment protocol that operates on top of a blockchain-based cryptocurrency. It is supposed to enable fast transactions among participating nodes and has been proposed as a solution to the bitcoin scalability problem. -Wikipedia

Lightning Network Research Papers

| A Composable Security Treatment of the Lightning Network - Kiayias & Litos 2019
| An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network - Kappos, Yousaf, Piotrowska, et al, 2020
| An Introduction to the Lightning Network Protocol - Rene Pickhardt 2019
| Analysis and Probing of Parallel Channels in the Lightning Network - Biryukov, Naumenko, Tikhomirov 2020
| Centrality Analysis of the Lightning Network -Zabka, Foerster, Decker, Schmid 2022
| Digital Forensic Implications of Collusion Attacks - Piatkivskyi, Axelsson, Nowostawski 2017
| Discreet Log Contracts Channels and Integration in the Lightning Network - Kuwahara, Le Guilly, Nakagawa 2020
| Evaluating Methods for the Identification of Off-Chain Transactions - Nowostawski and Ton 2019
| Flare: An Approach to Routing - Prihodko, Zhigulin, Sahno, et al. 2016
| Flood and Loot: A Systemic Attack - Harris and Zohar 2020
| Lightning Network: A Scalable Solution for Bitcoin - Syz Private Banking 2022
| Lightning Network: A Second Path Towards Centralisation of the Bitcoin Economy - Lin, Primicerio, et al. 2020
| Lightning Network as a Bitcoin Scaling Solution - CoinDesk 2021
| Lightning Network: Bitcoin Scalability Solutions - SF Bitcoin Meetup 2015
| Lightning Network: Bitcoin's Payment Solution - NYDIG 2022
| Lightning Network: Deconstructed and Evaluated - Lefebvre, Warrack, Ibrahim 2020
| Lightning Network Economics: Channels - Guasoni, Huberman, Shikhelman 2021
| Lightning Network Presentation - SF Bitcoin Devs 2015
| Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments - Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja 2016
| Lightning Network Summary - Lightning Network 2016
| Lightning Network Technical Summary - Lightning Network 2016
| Lightning Network Usage Statistics - Nik Bhatia 2020
| Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network - Rene Pickhardt & Stefan Richter 2020
| Scaling Bitcoin Securely - Aggelos Kiayias 2015
| Technological, Legal and Market Potentials of Lightning Network Applications - Miraz and Donald 2019
| The State of Lightning: Volume 1 - Arcane Research 2021
| The State of Lightning: Volume 2 - Arcane Research 2022
| Time, Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network - Joseph Poon 2019

Table of Contents

| Bitcoin Lightning Network - (28 reports)
| Bitcoin Mining - (46 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by CPAs and Management Consultants - (30 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Governments, Agencies, NGOs - (45 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Financial Institutions - (83 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Institutes & Foundations - (23 reports)
| Blockchain Reports by Lawyers & Law Firms - (15 reports)
| Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) - (55 reports)
| Cryptocurrency Crime, Terrorism & National Security - (53 reports)
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) - (22 reports)
| Encryption & Quantum Resistant Bitcoin - (38 reports)
| Healthcare & Blockchain Technology - (23 reports)
| Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) - (18 reports)
| Privacy, Anonymization and Data Protection - (12 reports)
| Proof of Stake (PoS) Consensus Protocol - (33 reports)
| Proof of Work (PoW) Consensus Protocol - (15 reports)
| Research & Academic Papers on Bitcoin and Crypto - (52 reports)
| Smart Contracts - (38 reports)
| Stablecoins - (15 reports)
| Top 10 Public Companies Holding Bitcoin - (10 reports)
| Understanding Austrian Economics and Bitcoin - (16 reports)

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