| What is Lightning? | | | The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments, What is the Lightning Network and how can it help Bitcoin scale?, The Lightning Network Evolving Bitcoin into a layered system, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 1: Building a Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 2: Creating the Network, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 3: Completing the Puzzle and Closing the Channel, Reaching The Ground With Lightning, Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day, 2015, Lightning Network Deep Dive with Laolu "Roasbeef" Osuntokun, The #Bitcoin #Lightning Spec, Lightning Network Glossary |
| What is Lightning? | Introduction | Lightning Layers | How the Lightning Layers Fit Together, A Lightning Application Design Perspective |
| What is Lightning? | Introduction | History of LN | History of the Lightning Network, The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like, The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta |
| What is Lightning? | Lightning ≈ Bitcoin | | Lightning ≈ Bitcoin |
| What is Lightning? | Lightning ≈ Bitcoin | Revisting tx malleability | SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Transaction Malleability: Threats and Solutions |
| How Layers fit together | Overview | | How the layers of Lightning Fit Together Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together | Update | | The Update Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together | Transfer | | The Transfer Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together | Multihop | | The Multihop Layer Seminar Video |
| How Layers fit together | Others | | The Base an Transport Layers Seminar Video |
| Transfer | Payment channel | General Concept | Payment Channel Overview |
| Transfer | Payment channel | Public channel | Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?, The open_channel Message |
| Transfer | Payment channel | Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing | Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing video, Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing algorithm paper |
| Transfer | Payment channel | Exhausted channels | |
| Transfer | Payment channel | Channel reserve | open_channel Message Rationale |
| Transfer | Transactions | BOLT | BOLT #3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats |
| Transfer | Transactions | Funding Transaction | Funding Transactions as a Generalized Design Pattern for Offchain Protocols, Funding Transaction Output, The funding_created Message |
| Transfer | Transactions | Commitment Transaction | Commitment transactions - wiki, Commitment Transaction - Bolt#3 |
| Transfer | Transactions | Closing Transaction | Closing a Channel in Lighting Network, Closing Transaction |
| Transfer | Transactions | Penalty Transaction | Revoked Transaction Close Handling |
| Transfer | Transactions | Mutual Close | Distinguishing mutual and unilateral channel closing in the Bitcoin blockchain, Mutual Close Handling |
| Transfer | Transactions | Unilateral Close | Unilateral Close Handling: Local Commitment Transaction |
| Transfer | Transactions | Fee negotiation | BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management |
| Transfer | HTLC | Overview | What Are Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)? Application In Lightning Network & Payment Channels, Lightning Networks Part II: Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs) |
| Transfer | HTLC | Hashlock | HTLC implementation Bitcoin Core |
| Transfer | HTLC | Timelocks | Bitcoin’s Time Locks, Timelock - wiki, Bitcoin Timelocks in a nutshell |
| Transfer | HTLC | Revocation Key | Lightning Networks Part I: Revocable Transactions |
| Transfer | HTLC | Relative Locktime/CLTV | BIP 65 |
| Transfer | HTLC | Hash Pre-image | What is a hash pre-image as it is used for the breach remedy?, Offered HTLC Outputs |
| Transfer | HTLC | payment basepoint/revocation basepoint | Key Derivation |
| Transfer | HTLC | Per-commit secret/Commitment number | Key Derivation |
| Transfer | HTLC | HTLC fulfillment/failure | Removing an HTLC: update_fulfill_htlc, update_fail_htlc, and update_fail_malformed_htlc |
| Transfer | Payment | Invoice | |
| Transfer | Payment | Payment Request | |
| Update | Invoices | Bolt11 encoding | BOLT #11: Invoice Protocol for Lightning Payments |
| Update | Gossip | Gossip Protocol | BOLT #7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery, Gossip Protocol/Path Finding seminar video |
| Update | Transactions | LN-Penalty | |
| Update | Transactions | Eltoo payment channels | eltoo: A Simple Layer2 Protocol for Bitcoin, Eltoo and the far future with Christian Decker |
| Update | Trampoline Payments | Overview | Trampoline Payments Seminar Video |
| Multihop | Sphinx | Overview | Using Sphinx to Improve Onion Routing Circuit Construction (short paper)⋆, Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format, Security Analysis of the Lightning Network |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Overview | Onion routing seminar video, Sphinx and Onion routing, Onion Routing with HTLCs on the Lightning Network explained! - Beginner / Experts |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Public vs. Private channel | Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network? |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Channel announcements | BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Routing fees | The Lightning Network (Part 2) – Routing Fee Economics |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Expiry delta | cltv_expiry_delta Selection |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Route hints | Exploring Lightning Network Routing |
| Multihop | Onion Routing | Keysend (formally known as spontaneous payments) | Keysend seminar video |
| Base | Framing and feature negotiation | | |
| Transport | Noise Protocol Framework | Overview | The Noise Protocol Framework, The Noise Protocol Framework (video) |
| Transport | Noise Protocol Framework | Noise XK | Handshake patterns, Noise Explorer |
| Atomic Swaps | Introduction | Overview | What are Atomic Swaps? A Beginner’s Guide, Atomic Swaps: How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins, Atomic Swaps - Jimmy Song, Atomic Swaps on the Lightning Network - video |
| Atomic Swaps | Submarine swaps vs. reverse swaps | Overview | Submarine swaps seminar video (first 25:30), Onboarding the Masses: Submarine Swaps, Submarine Swaps on the Lightning Network |
| Atomic Swaps | Loops | Overview | Loops seminar video (starting at 25:52), Announcing Lightning Loop Alpha: An Easier Way to Receive on Lightning, Loop Out In-depth |
| Limitations | Overview | | Lightning Network 2.0, Major Limitations of the Lightning Network |
| Limitations | Update layer | Incentive problems in the network | Incentive problems in the network seminar video |
| Limitations | Update layer | Fee management | Fee management seminar video |
| Limitations | Onion Routing | Routing failures | Routing failures seminar video |
| Limitations | Payment UX | | Payment UX seminar video |
| Limitations | Lightweight clients | | Limitations of lightweight clients seminar video |
| Limitations | Running Lightning in Production | | Running Lightning in Production seminar video |
| Limitations | Failure modes in action | | Failure modes in action repo |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future | Proposal States | | Lightning Specification 1.1 Proposal States, Lightning User Experience: A Day in the Life of Carol |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future | Liquidity | Splicing | Splicing seminar video, Channel top-up, Splicing Proposal |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future | Liquidity | Dual Funded channels | Dual funded channels seminar video, Proposal for Advertising Channel Liquidity |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future | Payments | Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning | AMP: Atomic Multi-Path Payments mailing list post, Atomic Multi-Path Payments seminar video, Base AMP, Specific fee routing for multi-path payments |
| BOLTs 1.1 and the future | Routing | Rendezvous routing | Rendezvous mechanism on top of Sphinx, Rendezvous Routing seminar video |
| The Far Future | Routing | Just in time routing | Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0 |
| The Far Future | Onboarding | Multiparty channels / channel factories | What are Channel Factories and how do they work?, Multi-party channels/Channel factories seminar video, Onboarding the Masses: Channel Factories |
| The Far Future | Payments | Decorelation | Payment Decorrelation |
| The Far Future | Payments | Streaming Payments | BOLT 11, real time micro payments, and route redundancy |
| The Far Future | Payments | Refunds | |
| The Far Future | Payments | Fast Failure | |
| The Far Future | Scripts | Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA | Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA |
| Privacy considerations | | | How the Lightning Network Layers Privacy on Top of Bitcoin |
| Privacy considerations | Watchtowers | | Incentivizing payment channel watchtower, Trustless Watchtowers, Architecture of LND Watchtowers Incentivizing Payment Channel Watchtowers |
| Privacy considerations | Channel probing attack for channel balance | | On the Difficulty of Hiding the Balance of Lightning Network Channels |
| Privacy considerations | Channel probing attack for channel balance code exercise | | Code exercise seminar introduction, Channel probing attack code exercise repo |
| Privacy considerations | Payment decorrelation | | Decorrelation of Lightning Payments |
| Privacy considerations | SNARKs | | Better privacy with SNARKs |
| Privacy considerations | Open ended questions | | Discussion questions |
| Security/Attack vectors | Attack vector intro | | Attack vector intro seminar video |
| Security/Attack Vectors | Denial of Service attacks | | Payment channel congestion via spam-attack |
| Considerations | Desired topology of a high functional network | Overview | Network Topology creation/maintenance seminar video |
| Considerations | Desired topology of a high functional network | Autopilot | Improving the autopilot of bitcoin’s lightning network, Autopilot PR in c-lightning |
| Considerations | Desired topology of a high functional network | Channel management | Lightning network topology Considerations, Rebalancing in the lightning network: Analysis and implications |
| Considerations | Desired topology of a high functional network | Cyclic Superhubs | Cyclic Superhubs as Solution Towards Reasonable Lightning Network Topology |
| Considerations | Neutrino | | Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning |
| Considerations | Pitfalls of concurrent requests | | |
| Considerations | Broadcasting channel updates | | What is the status of the Lightning Network? |
| Implementations | LND | | Lightning Network Daemon |
| Implementations | ptarmigan | | Ptarmigan |
| Implementations | electrum | | Electrum Implementation in Python, see electrum/ln*.py |
| Implementations | rust-lightning | Incomplete implementation | Rust-Lightning |
| Implementations | c-lightning | | c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C |
| Implementations | Eclair | | Eclair - A scala implementation of the Lightning Network |
| Implementations | DotNetLightning | Incomplete implementation | Lightning network daemon with F# |
| Implementations | geelightning | Incomplete implementation | geelightning in Rust |
| Setting up a node | | | Bitcoin Lightning Network #1: Can I compile and run a node?, Beginner’s Guide to Lightning️ on a Raspberry Pi, My Lightning Node setup with c-lightning, Fastest and cheapest way to get your own Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD |