Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol
Currently, the gossip protocol introduces privacy leaks and concerns that could be remedied while condensing the amount of messages sent. This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. The Lightning protocol works by atomically updating payments across multiple payment channels in such a way that everything confirms or fails all together — i.e., it routes payments across multiple hops. An integral part of any routing-based system is a routing table, a collection of all the information […]
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