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Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast

Update: 2024-12-12
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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 )

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Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive Podcast

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