by steliosr_blog | Apr 14, 2020 | Bitcoin
Article featured on CryptoTesters: https://smly.ga/wZeRnq2_sR Bitcoin mining refers to the security mechanism implemented into the Bitcoin protocol to achieve consensus over the state of the blockchain, in a decentralised way. It is key to understand how that...
by steliosr_blog | Apr 13, 2020 | Lightning Network
Article featured on CryptoTesters: https://smly.ga/diMOrq9FBF The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer scalability solution which enables peer-to-peer off-chain transactions by routing payments through a network of payment channels. This sentence might...
by steliosr_blog | Dec 16, 2019 | Lightning Network
Introduction This article is part of a series of articles aimed to analyse the Lightning Network topology using graph theory concepts. In the first article, I went over a set of metrics which are helpful in monitoring the growth of the network and the health of its...
by steliosr_blog | Dec 16, 2019 | Bitcoin, Lightning Network
Lightning Network: Some Graph Theory Metrics — Part 1 Introduction The Lightning Network is still advertised as an experimental technology and its viability as a 2nd layer solution for Bitcoin is yet to be proven. However, even in its experimental phase, the network...
