Rusty Russell from Blockstream rejoins me in this episode to talk about a very exciting development in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: Multi Part Payments. This is a new feature that will be implemented into the Lightning Network specification, and will be included in the new c-lightning 0.8.0 release. We talk about:

Development work ongoing
Multi Part Payments and how they change Lightning Network
Payment Secrets
Privacy on Lightning Network
Outlook for Lightning Network in 2020

Rusty Russell links

Twitter: @Rusty_twit
BOLT specs: Lightning network specification
C-lightning: ElementsProject/lightning
Blockstream website: Blockstream.com

Prior episodes with Rusty:

SLP23 - Economic Eras of Bitcoin, and Lightning Development, with Rusty Russell of Blockstream
SLP98 Rusty Russell and Joe Netti – Can Lightning Network Scale to a Million Channels?

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