Apr 2020

58m 35s

SLP164 Gleb Naumenko - erlay Bitcoin tra...

STEPHAN LIVERA

About this episode

Gleb Naumenko of Chaincode Labs joins me in this episode to talk about erlay. We talk about:

How he got into bitcoin development
Transaction relay in Bitcoin
Attacks at the network level
Erlay
Costs and Benefits
Bitcoin and lightning development more broadly

Gleb Naumenko:

Twitter: @tomatodread
Github account: https://github.com/naumenkogs
BIP330: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0330.mediawiki
Erlay Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.10518.pdf

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