Rene Pickhardt, independent researcher and bitcoin/lightning educator rejoins me to talk about his new approach to massively improving lightning payments reliability, and the various trade offs:

What the current approach is
What Pickhardt payments are
Constraints and trade offs
Reliability and privacy trade offs
Are there conflicts with other proposals to improve lightning network?
Zero Base Fee

Rene links:

Twitter: @renepickhardt
Rene’s Patreon: Rene Pickhardt - Patreon.com
Support Rene here: https://donate.ln.rene-pickhardt.de/
Researchers website: https://ln.rene-pickhardt.de/

Prior episode:

SLP37 Rene Pickhardt - Bitcoin Lightning Education & Lightning Summit

Sponsors:

Swan Bitcoin
Hodl Hodl Lend
Compass Mining
Braiins.com
Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

SLP361 Rene Pickhardt - Pickhardt Payments & Zero Base Fee for Lightning Network

Stephan Livera Podcast

SLP361 Rene Pickhardt - Pickhardt Payments & Zero Base Fee for Lightning Network