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Sergi Delgado and Watchtowers, Lightning Privacy - Episode 28

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Sergi Delgado joins us to discuss Watchtowers, his prior work in Bitcoin and Lightning privacy, Python vs. Rust and the impact of Eltoo.

We cover:

- Sergi’s prior research

- Mapping Network Topology Research (02:46)

- TxProbe paper
- Andrew Miller
- Coinscope
- Episode on Address Relay with Martin (04:28)
- Block-only connections PR by Suhas (07:32)

- An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network (09:18)

- Lightning white paper, 2016 (09:48)

- Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances (13:38)

- Episode with Sergei on Probing

- Channel Jamming paper (13:50)

- Episode with Clara and Sergei

- Should we pay for failed payments? (14:19)

- HTLC withholding vs. HTLC hodling (15:48)

- Is Lightning flawed when it comes to privacy? (16:32)

- Watchtowers (17:44)

- Python PoC (21:49)

- ZmnSCPxj’s writing watchtowers

- Building on LDK (24:20)

- Transition to rust (24:45)

- Altruistic towers vs professional services (30:21)

- More privacy considerations in Lightning (34:11)

- Monitoring and reacting paradigm (44:04)

- Storage and Eltoo (50:06)

- Professional tower revenue models - subscription vs. bounties (53:00)

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Sergi Delgado joins us to discuss Watchtowers, his prior work in Bitcoin and Lightning privacy, Python vs. Rust and the impact of Eltoo.

We cover:

- Sergi’s prior research

- Mapping Network Topology Research (02:46)

- TxProbe paper
- Andrew Miller
- Coinscope
- Episode on Address Relay with Martin (04:28)
- Block-only connections PR by Suhas (07:32)

- An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network (09:18)

- Lightning white paper, 2016 (09:48)

- Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances (13:38)

- Episode with Sergei on Probing

- Channel Jamming paper (13:50)

- Episode with Clara and Sergei

- Should we pay for failed payments? (14:19)

- HTLC withholding vs. HTLC hodling (15:48)

- Is Lightning flawed when it comes to privacy? (16:32)

- Watchtowers (17:44)

- Python PoC (21:49)

- ZmnSCPxj’s writing watchtowers

- Building on LDK (24:20)

- Transition to rust (24:45)

- Altruistic towers vs professional services (30:21)

- More privacy considerations in Lightning (34:11)

- Monitoring and reacting paradigm (44:04)

- Storage and Eltoo (50:06)

- Professional tower revenue models - subscription vs. bounties (53:00)

  continue reading

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