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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
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…