Payment Splitting in Lightning Network as a Mitigation Against Balance Discovery Attacks

ePrint Report: Payment Splitting in Lightning Network as a Mitigation Against Balance Discovery Attacks

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Bitcoin has a low throughput of around 7 transactions per second. The Lightning Network (LN) is a solution meant to improve that throughput while also improving privacy. LN is a Payment Channel Network (PCN) that runs as a peer-to-peer network on top of Bitcoin and improves scalability by keeping most transactions off-chain without sacrificing the trustless character of Bitcoin. Prior work showed that …

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