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TLS46: Rene Pickhardt on Multi-Part Payments, Zero Base Fee, and Lightning Network Limitations
The Kevin Rooke Show

TLS46: Rene Pickhardt on Multi-Part Payments, Zero Base Fee, and Lightning Network Limitations

May 18 2022 • 1hr 23m

Show Notes

Rene Pickhardt is an independent researcher working on improving payments on the Lightning Network.
In our talk, Rene explained his experience doing independent Bitcoin research, how multi-part payments and zero base fees can improve Lightning payments, and some of the limitations of the Lightning Network today.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:21 - Rene Pickhardt Intro
10:40 - Rene’s Experience Writing Mastering The Lightning Network
15:41 - Rene’s Experience as an Independent Researcher
27:41 - Multi-Part Payments
47:51 - Reliability, Fees, and Latency on Lightning
54:15 - Zero Base Fees
1:09:57 - Real-World Parallels for Lightning Network Architecture
1:16:41 - Limitations of the Lightning Network
1:21:01 - The Lightning Round
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@jeffrey
5,000 sats
May 18 2022
Big fan of Rene! Boosted pre-listen! haha.
@btcrich
3,600 sats
May 20 2022
great listen. I’m so impressed with Renes fierce independence. sobering thoughts about the trend towards centralisation and the implications of censorship
@petar
1,234 sats
May 18 2022
Changing the protocal to included a reliability layer would be a game changer, i think we still are early enough to reboot the entire lightning network with a new protocal if it comes down to it.
@and1
121 sats
Jun 27 2022
Great work!