Rene Pickhardt Talks LN Fee Blackmail Attacks - LNJ034

We uploaded this again because the first version had some audio issues, our apologies. Transcript: sicksub.network/LNJ034_Transcript This is the 34th episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Rene Pickhardt! Rene is working on a PHD in pathfinding. Rene is prolific in the Lightning Network ecosystem, he can be found on StackExchange, Youtube, and at university teaching people about the Lightning Network. Rene is currently self employed as a data scientist. We talk about: Rene’s Background How to Contribute to Lightning “Thinking in Bitcoin” Onion Routing Researchers in Lightning Hal Finney Funding Researchers Flood and Loot Attacks HTLC Attacks Security of the Lightning Network Interaction Between Researchers and Devs Rene’s Twitter: twitter.com/renepickhardt Rene’s Fee Blackmail Attack Disclosure: lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2020-June/002735.html Flood and Loot Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2006.08513 Optech Newsletter: bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/ Support us here: lightningjunkies.net/support Follow the Lightning Junkies blog: lightningjunkies.net Follow Lightning Junkies on Twitter: sicksub.network/LNJunkies Follow Chaz on Twitter: sicksub.network/TheChaz Follow Lightning Cat: sicksub.network/LNJCat