Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Stephan Livera Podcast
Episode: SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti - Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?
Description: So Bitcoin’s Lightning Network exists and works today. Can it scale up to a million channels? Rusty Russell (Blockstream Elements Project, working on c-lightning and the Lightning Spec) and Joe Netti (recently interned at Blockstream) join me to talk about their work on the Million Channels Project. We talk about:
Why the Project was started
Set upÂ
Regtest and Gossip
Routing
Optimisations needed
An update on c-lightning
Links:
Million Channel Blockstream results post: https://eng.blockstream.com/2019/06/24/letting-channels-bloom/Â
Million Channels Project Github: https://github.com/rustyrussell/million-channels-projectÂ
Million Channel Project proposal: https://medium.com/@rusty_light...