Name: Atomic Locks in Lightning: The present, the future, and an alternate reality
Start: 2024-12-08T10:50:00+0300
End: 2024-12-08T11:10:00+0300

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am EAT

Main Hall

Payments along routes in the Lightning Network are required to be atomic in order to preserve their trustless property. We’ll recap how the HTLC construct achieves this currently and its shortcomings. This will be contrasted with the likely future of atomic payments via PTLCs with an overview of their progress to specification. We’ll review signature adaptors and compare the MuSig vs. single signature adaptor variants for the implementation of PTLCs. As an interesting, but related aside, we’ll explore non-Schnorr-based constructs for Lightning Network payments that still provide atomicity and similar anonymity and privacy to PTLCs.

Speakers

Duncan Dean

Open Source LN Developer (Grantee), Btrust

I am an open-source Bitcoin developer from South Africa 🇿🇦, focused on advancing the Lightning Development Kit (LDK), with recent work on dual-funded channels and splicing to make Lightning Network more efficient and accessible. My current open-source work is funded by Btrust. I... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

Btrust Developer Day

Duncan Dean

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