A Scaling Breakthrough for the Lightning Network
John Law has just published a fascinating proposal to allow for much improved scaling of the Lightning Network.
https://github.com/JohnLaw2/btc-iids/blob/main/iids13.pdf
This new protocol (named Inherited IDs) would completely replace the proposed Eltoo protocol, and greatly improves it by allowing multiple Lightning channels to be opened (or modified) with a single on-chain transaction, saving thousands or millions of transactions.
This can be implemented via a Bitcoin soft fork.
The proposal appears well thought-out and sensible at first glance, but perhaps my brain just isn't big enough to pinpoint any flaws in the proposal...
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