Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #381:
- Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization
- Private key handover for collaborative closure
- Updates to services and client software
- And more
You can listen on our website:
https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2025/11/25/
Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/3zDWx0jj8JOTj9ukAoC6
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BsoRU9mZZiLLlDYFtLo0W
Apple Podcasts:
Swaps are better than splices no you cannot change my mind.
Is it based on the idea that you can provably encrypt the token to a pubkey, and atomically providing the corresponding decrypting privkey as a scalar to a PTLC?
A lot of Lightning liquidity troubles disappear once the Lightning economy becomes circular, but you cannot get there unless you demonstrate high payment reliability, which requires that Lightning fix its liquidity troubles some other way first. Fortunately forwardable peerswaps forces the Lightning economy to be circular by just trading 1 BTC (onchain) = 1 BTC (offchain). Once we become truly circular we will stop needing it, but any liquidity pressure can be relieved by forwardable peerswaps.
LSPS0 uses JSON because binary encodings are just prebuilt dictionary compression algorithms for human-readable text. Yes, on the wire it is encrypted and unreadable, but I imagine that developers would appreciate logging the raw JSON to and from the peer, while debugging their first LSPS implementations. Fast human developers (while still ensuring you do not go so fast as to break things) trumps any elegance arguments here.
