Rusty Russell and privacy and robustness in Lightning - episode 34

Rusty drops by to tell us about why privacy and robustness should be prioritized in Lightning.

We discuss:

• LN symmetry (04:39)

  • Do we want LN Symmetry to be symmetrical? (05:12)
  • Listen to the conversation with instagibbs

• Peer to peer protocol (13:30)

• CTV (16:54)

• Pushing privacy and robustness to the front of the line (20:33)

• The dynamics of developing a spec with commercially associated implementations (22:19)

• Expecting new implementations (26:22)

• Privacy revisited (27:02)

• What broke when fee rate spiked? (31:21)