Transcript: https://sicksub.network/LNJ045Transcript  


Ruben Somsen joins us for the 45th episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we cover BIP118 (SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT) and Eltoo along with related topics. Ruben is known for the statechain, spacechain, and softchain proposals. We briefly touch blind-statechains and spacechains. We do get into drivechains a little bit, not that much.


We talk about:

1:31 - BIP118
6:12 - Downsides of ANYPREVOUT
10:43 - Eltoo
12:25 - Penalty Transactions
16:09 - Channel Factories
23:16 - Lot 49
24:19 - Fees on APO
25:43 - Layered Commitments
27:36 - Mercury Wallet
30:25 - LN on Statechains
33:43 - Federations
36:37 - How would governance work in federations?
42:28 - Spacechains
47:37 - Spacechains Use Case
49:19 -   Spacechains on LN?!?!

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Further reading:


More info on BIP118 - anyprevout.xyz

Testnet implementation of Statechains - mercurywallet.com/

Layered Commitments by Anthony Towns -  lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-January/002448.html

LNJ010 - sicksub.network/LNJ010

Lot49 - global-mesh-labs.gitbook.io/lot49/

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