
SLP502 Validating Lightning Signer - Ken Sedgwick
About this episode
How can lightning users secure themselves even further? Just like how hardware wallets and secure elements can help secure your cold storage coins, Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) is a project aiming to help improve the way lightning security works. In this conversation with project co-founder Ken Sedgwick, we chat:
- Why VLS is needed
- How VLS works
- Implementing part of the lightning state machine
- What rules are covered?
- What lightning implementations are supported?
- The impact of lightning protocol changes
- Interactions with watchtowers?
- How you can get involved
Links:
- Twitter: @VLSProject
- Site: Validating Lightning Signer
Sponsors:
- Pacific Bitcoin Festival (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
- Mempool.space
- Base58
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- Subscribe to the podcast
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