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
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A Composable Security Treatment of the Lightning Network - Kiayias & Litos 2019
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An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network - Kappos, Yousaf, Piotrowska, et al, 2020
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An Introduction to the Lightning Network Protocol - Rene Pickhardt 2019
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Analysis and Probing of Parallel Channels in the Lightning Network - Biryukov, Naumenko, Tikhomirov 2020
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Centrality Analysis of the Lightning Network -Zabka, Foerster, Decker, Schmid 2022
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Digital Forensic Implications of Collusion Attacks - Piatkivskyi, Axelsson, Nowostawski 2017
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Discreet Log Contracts Channels and Integration in the Lightning Network - Kuwahara, Le Guilly, Nakagawa 2020
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Evaluating Methods for the Identification of Off-Chain Transactions - Nowostawski and Ton 2019
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Flare: An Approach to Routing - Prihodko, Zhigulin, Sahno, et al. 2016
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Flood and Loot: A Systemic Attack - Harris and Zohar 2020
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Lightning Network: A Scalable Solution for Bitcoin - Syz Private Banking 2022
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Lightning Network: A Second Path Towards Centralisation of the Bitcoin Economy - Lin, Primicerio, et al. 2020
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Lightning Network as a Bitcoin Scaling Solution - CoinDesk 2021
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Lightning Network: Bitcoin Scalability Solutions - SF Bitcoin Meetup 2015
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Lightning Network: Bitcoin's Payment Solution - NYDIG 2022
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Lightning Network: Deconstructed and Evaluated - Lefebvre, Warrack, Ibrahim 2020
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Lightning Network Economics: Channels - Guasoni, Huberman, Shikhelman 2021
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Lightning Network Presentation - SF Bitcoin Devs 2015
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Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments - Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja 2016
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Lightning Network Summary - Lightning Network 2016
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Lightning Network Technical Summary - Lightning Network 2016
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Lightning Network Usage Statistics - Nik Bhatia 2020
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Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network - Rene Pickhardt & Stefan Richter 2020
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Scaling Bitcoin Securely - Aggelos Kiayias 2015
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Technological, Legal and Market Potentials of Lightning Network Applications - Miraz and Donald 2019
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The State of Lightning: Volume 1 - Arcane Research 2021
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The State of Lightning: Volume 2 - Arcane Research 2022
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Time, Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network - Joseph Poon 2019
Table of Contents
| Bitcoin Reports by Financial Institutions - (83 reports)
| Bitcoin Reports by Governments, Agencies, NGOs - (45 reports)
| Bitcoin Reports by Institutes & Foundations - (23 reports)
| Bitcoin Reports by Lawyers & Law Firms - (15 reports)
| Bitcoin Reports by Management Consultants and CPAs - (30 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)
| Lightning Network (Bitcoin ) - (28 reports)
| Mining Bitcoin - (46 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)
| Trump Administration Approach to Crypto - (26 reports)
| Understanding Austrian Economics and Bitcoin - (16 reports)
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