On Todays Show

Matthew Zipkin speaks with Rusty Russell of Blockstream about his work on the Lightning Network. They talk what it is, what it does, how it does it, why it matters and when it'll be something you're actually using.

Additional Links

Original white paper by Joseph Poon & Thaddeus Dryja:

http://lightning.network

Rusty's update paper:

https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ln-deploy-draft-01.pdf

Rusty's blog posts (part one starts here):

https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=450

The best place to get started

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/doc/deployable-lightning.pdf

Sponsors:

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Credits for Episode 242

Image Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/filterforge/15223544393

Content for todays episode was provided by Matthew and Rusty

This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin

Music for todays show was provided by Jared Rubens and General Fuzz

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