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Title: Lighting Network Article
Post by: jaybird777 on June 04, 2018, 10:14:35 PM
I just finished writing an article that explains Lightning Channel construction and multi-hop transfers. Looking for anyone highly versed on LN protocols to peer review for technical accuracy before I publish. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZcFAFGZbXUI2t0jLosRhyQ4N3dUHzWCtt5crXO728k/edit


Title: Re: Lighting Network Article
Post by: Traxo on June 05, 2018, 08:00:15 PM
Are you going to put nothing in your article about the flaws and vulnerabilities of LN? I thought your article was going to be unbiased technological explanation but the introduction makes some biased, subjective claims about scaling and increased decentralization compared to traditional payment services. Thus I think you should balance that with a list of counter-claims against LN.

See the LN section:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@anonymint/scaling-decentralization-security-of-distributed-ledgers

Peer review is requested on that linked blog as well.


Title: Re: Lighting Network Article
Post by: andrew1carlssin on June 05, 2018, 10:16:25 PM
I just finished writing an article that explains Lightning Channel construction and multi-hop transfers. Looking for anyone highly versed on LN protocols to peer review for technical accuracy before I publish. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZcFAFGZbXUI2t0jLosRhyQ4N3dUHzWCtt5crXO728k/edit

I opened and made a bak copy,
I read the first 2 paragraphs and your writing skills and style sounds interesting, for instance words like "rail" have interesting meaning for our community.
Regards to the scientific method for research, I am not aware withif we do have an association like ACM, IEEE, AAAI, etc ... I would bet that maybe we are more close to IACR

Anyway a quick question do you have a preferences for scientific citation style, while referring to others  ?

for instance,

https://i.imgur.com/A8lQd9I.png  


Title: Re: Lighting Network Article
Post by: jaybird777 on June 06, 2018, 12:37:10 PM
Are you going to put nothing in your article about the flaws and vulnerabilities of LN? I thought your article was going to be unbiased technological explanation but the introduction makes some biased, subjective claims about scaling and increased decentralization compared to traditional payment services. Thus I think you should balance that with a list of counter-claims against LN.

See the LN section:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@anonymint/scaling-decentralization-security-of-distributed-ledgers

Peer review is requested on that linked blog as well.

Thanks for the feedback! My goal in writing this piece was to explain how channels are constructed at the protocol layer, not to provide insight on cost/benefits of the LN itself. After hearing your comments and re-reading, I definitely agree that some of my language is (unintentionally) biased. I'm going to clean up the piece and create a more hard-lined distinction between what is inherent fact vs. claims made by LN.

I'll take a look at your post and provide insight as well!


Title: Re: Lighting Network Article
Post by: grass on June 10, 2018, 07:13:46 PM
Are you going to put nothing in your article about the flaws and vulnerabilities of LN? I thought your article was going to be unbiased technological explanation but the introduction makes some biased, subjective claims about scaling and increased decentralization compared to traditional payment services. Thus I think you should balance that with a list of counter-claims against LN.

See the LN section:

https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@anonymint/scaling-decentralization-security-of-distributed-ledgers

Peer review is requested on that linked blog as well.

It is hard to follow along the twists and turns of of the argument the author is trying to make. I would love to understand what the hell he is talking about.