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Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast
Published 1 year, 3 months ago
Description
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s Lightning Network channel depletion research.
- Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01)
- Why look at wealth distributions? (5:45)
- What can be learned from depletion? (11:38)
- Circular rebalancing (13:33)
- What determines where the spanning tree is? (15:28)
- Mitigating depletion (20:14)
- Adjacent channels and their impact (26:39)
- Multiparty channels, channel factories, and Ark (29:52)
- Hub-and-spoke topology discussion (41:06)
- What real world data would inform the theoretical? (54:54)