Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s ⁠Lightning Network channel depletion research⁠.

• Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01)
• Why look at wealth distributions? (5:45)
• What can be learned from depletion? (11:38)
• Circular rebalancing (13:33)
• What determines where the spanning tree is? (15:28)
• Mitigating depletion (20:14)
• Adjacent channels and their impact (26:39)
• Multiparty channels, channel factories, and Ark (29:52)
• Hub-and-spoke topology discussion (41:06)
• What real world data would inform the theoretical? (54:54)