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Onion Messaging In Depth

Feedback from Matt Corallo recently made me realize how complex onion messages can seem, mainly because they’re divided between multiple…

Sep 7, 2021

Sep 7, 2021

Australian Tax Office Treatment of Bitcoin (etc) Forks: Trouble Ahead

TL:DR; ATO treats forks as creating a “new asset” causing unexpected tax burdens for any Australian taxpayer holding cryptocurrencies in…

Apr 14, 2020

Australian Tax Office Treatment of Bitcoin (etc) Forks: Trouble Ahead

Apr 14, 2020

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

New Release: c-lightning 0.7.2

Extended plugin features and dynamic add & remove

Aug 21, 2019

New Release: c-lightning 0.7.2

Aug 21, 2019

The Cost of Bitcoin’s Security

Fears over the declining block reward are real.

May 28, 2019

May 28, 2019

Quick Lightning Channel Stats (31-Jan-19)

My mainnet node sees 23304 unique channels (technically 45958 half-channels) from 2902 nodes; mean capacity is 0.027 BTC ($US92), median…

Feb 1, 2019

Quick Lightning Channel Stats (31-Jan-19)

Feb 1, 2019

Proposal: The Million Channel (Lightning) Project

I’ve had this idea for a while, but I’ve never got around to it so I’m calling publicly for collaborators…

Jan 5, 2019

Jan 5, 2019

Published in
Blockstream Engineering Blog

My Experience of the Second Lightning Developer Summit

Last week I had the honor of hosting the key Lightning developers in my hometown of Adelaide, Australia. I put this on yalls.org for a…

Nov 23, 2018

Nov 23, 2018

Open Questions About Bitcoin’s Nakamoto Consensus

It’s natural to make simplifying assumptions about technology; such abstractions let us build on top without dealing with exponentially…

Aug 19, 2018

Aug 19, 2018

The Corrosion of Ethics in Cryptocurrencies

I work on Bitcoin (currently: Lightning Network), continuing a 20 year career of Free/Open Source Software development. I love the…

Feb 14, 2018

Feb 14, 2018

Published in
Blockstream Engineering Blog

Celebrating Lightning Development

“Be excellent to each other please!”

Dec 7, 2017

Dec 7, 2017

Rusty Russell

Rusty Russell

Rusty is a Linux kernel dev who wandered into Blockstream, and is currently trying to produce a prototype and spec for bitcoin lightning. Hodls bitcoin (only).

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