How will Lightning Network(s) improve scalability and privacy in Bitcoin? What is the Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT) interoperability standard? How many implementations are there? Onion-routed, anonymous payments payments. Are there centralisation risks?
lnd (Lightning Labs), c-lightning (Blockstream), eclair (ACINQ):
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/l...
https://github.com/ElementsProject/li...
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
Integration tests: https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-i...
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