Rusty Russell and privacy and robustness in Lightning - episode 34

Rusty drops by to tell us about why privacy and robustness should be prioritized in Lightning.

We discuss:

LN symmetry (04:39)

Do we want LN Symmetry to be symmetrical? (05:12)

Listen to the conversation with instagibbs

Peer to peer protocol (13:30)

CTV (16:54)

Pushing privacy and robustness to the front of the line (20:33)

The dynamics of developing a spec with commercially associated implementations (22:19)

Expecting new implementations (26:22)

Privacy revisited (27:02)

What broke when fee rate spiked? (31:21)