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Lightning Network Onion Routing: Sphinx Packet Construction

Diving into all things BOLT-04

March 26, 2024 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

Lightning Network Onion Routing: Preliminaries

This post covers the basics of choosing a path and packaging information for each hop on the path

March 25, 2024 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

Normal operation and closure of a pre-taproot LN channel

A deep-dive into the normal operation and closure of a pre-taproot Lightning Network channel

June 14, 2023 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

Taproot Channel Transactions

A deep-dive into the structure of Taproot channel transactions

April 25, 2023 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

Taproot and MuSig2 recap

A recap of the building blocks required for Taproot channels

April 18, 2023 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

Opening and announcing a pre-taproot LN channel

A deep dive into opening a pre-taproot Lightning Network channel

January 23, 2023 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

BIP158: Compact Block Filters Deep Dive

What even is Golomb-Rice Coding?

November 1, 2021 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

LN Things Part 5: HTLC Deep Dive

Day 7 of #7DaysOfBitcoin

March 27, 2021 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

LN Things Part 4: HTLC Overview

Day 6 of #7DaysOfBitcoin

March 26, 2021 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]

LN Things Part 3: Revocation in more detail

Day 3 of #7DaysOfBitcoin

March 23, 2021 · map[email:elle.mouton@gmail.com name:Elle Mouton]