Conner Fromknecht Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs, joins me to go in depth on Bitcoin Lightning Watchtowers. Understand how Bitcoin’s Lightning Network keeps channel participants honest and how Watchtowers can help:

How Lightning Network’s punishment model works without watchtowers
Where watchtowers come in and how they work
Why watchtowers can’t steal your bitcoins
Scalability of watchtowers
Privacy
Funding and operation model
LND v0.7 features

Conner Fromknecht links:

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