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The evolving topology of the Lightning Network: Centralization, efficiency, robustness, synchronization, and anonymity

The Lightning Network (LN) was released on Bitcoin’s mainnet in January 2018 as a solution to favor scalability. This work analyses the evolution of the LN during its first year of existence in order to assess its impact over some of the core fundamentals of Bitcoin, such as: node centralization, re...

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Autores principales: Martinazzi, Stefano, Flori, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6961907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31940309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225966