Reducing CO2 emissions in a peer-to-peer distributed payment network: Does geography matter in the lightning network?

D Valko, D Kudenko - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-related globally distributed peer-to-peer networks
have become an important payment infrastructure. Because they are naturally decentralized …

On increasing scalability and liquidation of lightning networks for blockchains

J Wu, S Jiang - IEEE Transactions on Network Science and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lightning network (LN) is a layer-two solution in Bitcoin for support scalability. LN uses
offchain micropayment channels to scale the blockchain's capability to perform instant …

An empirical study of availability and reliability properties of the bitcoin lightning network

F Waugh, R Holz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14358, 2020 - arxiv.org
The Bitcoin Lightning network is a mechanism to enable fast and inexpensive off-chain
Bitcoin transactions using peer-to-peer (P2P) channels between nodes that can also be …

On the (Not So) Surprising Impact of Multi-Path Payments on Performance And Privacy in the Lightning Network

C Ndolo, F Tschorsch - European Symposium on Research in Computer …, 2023 - Springer
The Lightning network (LN) addresses Bitcoin's scalability issues by providing fast and
private payment processing. In order to mitigate failures caused by insufficient channel …

A measurement study of bitcoin lightning network

Y Guo, J Tong, C Feng - 2019 IEEE international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a promising method to enable fast and scalable Bitcoin transactions, Bitcoin Lightning
Network (LN) has experienced rapid development since the end of 2017. LN utilizes the so …

Decentralizing the lightning network: a score-based recommendation strategy for the autopilot system

MS Mahdizadeh, B Bahrak, M Sayad Haghighi - Applied Network Science, 2023 - Springer
The fundamental objective of the Lightning Network is to establish a decentralized platform
for scaling the Bitcoin network and facilitating high-throughput micropayments. However, this …

Lightnings over rose bouquets: An analysis of the topology of the Bitcoin Lightning Network

A Lisi, DDF Maesa, P Mori… - 2021 IEEE 45th Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Lightning Network is a P2P overlay that allows two Bitcoin users to create a new
payment channel with a transaction, and later exchange cryptocurrency on that channel …

Routing payments on the lightning network

G Di Stasi, S Avallone, R Canonico… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bitcoin is a new digital currency created with the aim of being decentralized, peer-to-peer,
censorship-resistant, borderless, scarce, fast and cheap to use. Since Bitcoin main way of …

[PDF][PDF] Increasing energy efficiency of bitcoin infrastructure with reinforcement learning and one-shot path planning for the lightning network

D Valko, D Kudenko - … (ALA 2023) At AAMAS 2023, May …, 2023 - alaworkshop2023.github.io
ABSTRACT The Lightning Network (LN) is a technological solution designed to solve the
Bitcoin blockchain transaction speed problem by introducing off-chain transactions. Since …

Understanding the lightning network capability to route payments

D Šatcs - 2020 - essay.utwente.nl
The Bitcoin adoption as a digital currency had been rising and reached its peak in 2017
when the network was processing half a million transactions daily. Such unprecedented …