Get Me out of This Payment! Bailout: An HTLC Re-routing Protocol

ePrint Report: Get Me out of This Payment! Bailout: An HTLC Re-routing Protocol

Oguzhan Ersoy, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Stefanie Roos

The Lightning Network, a real-world payment channel network deployed over Bitcoin, provides almost-instant payments to its parties. In addition to direct payments, which require a shared account, parties can pay each other in the form of multi-hop payments via existing payment channels. Such multi-hop payments rely on a 2-phase commit protocol to achieve balance security; that is, no honest intermediary party …

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