February 2020

Research shows Lightning Network vulnerable to split attacks and congestion attacks. Congestion attack can disrupt LN for only $4,000

This article provides a good summary: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-lightning-network-is-growing-increasingly-centralized-researchers-find The split attack paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.02819.pdf The congestion attack Medium summary: https://medium.com/@ayelem02/congestion-attacks-in-payment-channel-networks-b7ac37208389 The congestion attack paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.06564.pdf submitted by /u/Live_Magnetic_Air [link] [comments]

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