Rene Pickhardt, independent researcher and bitcoin/lightning educator rejoins me to talk about his new approach to massively improving lightning payments reliability, and the various trade offs:

• What the current approach is
• What Pickhardt payments are
• Constraints and trade offs
• Reliability and privacy trade offs
• Are there conflicts with other proposals to improve lightning network?
• Zero Base Fee

Rene links:

• Twitter: @renepickhardt
• Rene’s Patreon: Rene Pickhardt - Patreon.com
• Support Rene here: https://donate.ln.rene-pickhardt.de/
• Researchers website: https://ln.rene-pickhardt.de/

Prior episode:

• SLP37 Rene Pickhardt - Bitcoin Lightning Education & Lightning Summit

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• Swan Bitcoin
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• Compass Mining
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Stephan Livera links:

• Show notes and website
• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera