Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast
December 12, 2024·58m
Show Notes
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s Lightning Network channel depletion research.
- Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01)
- Why look at wealth distributions? (5:45)
- What can be learned from depletion? (11:38)
- Circular rebalancing (13:33)
- What determines where the spanning tree is? (15:28)
- Mitigating depletion (20:14)
- Adjacent channels and their impact (26:39)
- Multiparty channels, channel factories, and Ark (29:52)
- Hub-and-spoke topology discussion (41:06)
- What real world data would inform the theoretical? (54:54)