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most citedProbing Channel Balances in the Lightning Network

21 citations · 21 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.NI2021

Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network

Rene Pickhardt, Stefan Richter

Today, payment paths in Bitcoin's Lightning Network are found by searching for shortest paths on the fee graph. We enhance this approach in two dimensions. Firstly, we take into ac…

cs.CR2021

Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances

Rene Pickhardt, Sergei Tikhomirov, Alex Biryukov +1

The Lightning Network (LN) is a prominent payment channel network aimed at addressing Bitcoin's scalability issues. Due to the privacy of channel balances, senders cannot reliably…

cs.CR2020★ 21 cited

Probing Channel Balances in the Lightning Network

Sergei Tikhomirov, Rene Pickhardt, Alex Biryukov +1

As Lightning network payments are neither broadcasted nor publicly stored. Thus LN has been seen not only as scalability but also as privacy solution for Bitcoin. The protocol guar…

cs.SI2019

Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing algorithm for the Lightning Network

Rene Pickhardt, Mariusz Nowostawski

Making a payment in a privacy-aware payment channel network is achieved by trying several payment paths until one succeeds. With a large network, such as the Lightning Network, a c…

cs.CL2014

A Generalized Language Model as the Combination of Skipped n-grams and Modified Kneser-Ney Smoothing

Rene Pickhardt, Thomas Gottron, Martin Körner +3

We introduce a novel approach for building language models based on a systematic, recursive exploration of skip n-gram models which are interpolated using modified Kneser-Ney smoot…