Maypoles: Lightning Striking Twice

ePrint Report: Maypoles: Lightning Striking Twice

Clara Shikhelman

The Lightning Network (LN) is a second layer solution built on top of Bitcoin, aimed to solve Bitcoin's long transaction waiting times and high transaction fees. Empirical and theoretical studies show that the LN is tending towards the hub and spoke network topology. In this topology most of the nodes, the spokes, open a single channel to one of the few well-connected nodes, the hubs. This topology is known to be prone …

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