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An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin's Consensus Evolution
Jakob Svennevik Notland, Mariusz Nowostawski, Jingyue Li
Blockchain systems run consensus rules as code to agree on the state of the distributed ledger and secure the network. Changing these rules can be risky and challenging. In additio…
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…
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…
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…