Increase of long-term success ratio using novel splitting methods in Interdimensional SpeedyMurmurs

Popular cryptocurrencies lack scalability. Payment Channel Networks (PCN's) allow a large increase in transaction throughput. However, transaction failures are frequent when transactions are routed through multiple intermediaries. A previously introduced protocol, Interdimensional SpeedyMurmurs, increased the success ratio of transactions in PCN...

Improving Blockchain Anonymity Using Hop Changes with Partial Route Computation

The Lightning Network aims to solve Bitcoin's scalability problem by providing a way to transact with minimal use of the blockchain. Instead, payments are routed over payment channel networks. This routing is done by LN clients, which use cost functions to compute the optimal transaction path. With the use of onion routing, LN tries to hide the...

How Lightning's Routing Diminishes its Anonymity

Lightning, the prevailing solution to Bitcoin's scalability issue, uses onion routing to hide senders and recipients of payments. Yet, the path between the sender and the recipient along which payments are routed is selected such that it is short, cost efficient, and fast. The low degree of randomness in the path selection entails that...