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Rusty Russell

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…

3 min readSep 7, 2021

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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…

6 min readApr 14, 2020

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

New Release: c-lightning 0.7.2

Extended plugin features and dynamic add & remove

4 min readAug 21, 2019

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New Release: c-lightning 0.7.2

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The Cost of Bitcoin’s Security

Fears over the declining block reward are real.

1 min readMay 28, 2019

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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…

1 min readFeb 1, 2019

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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…

1 min readJan 5, 2019

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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…

6 min readNov 23, 2018

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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…

2 min readAug 19, 2018

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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…

2 min readFeb 14, 2018

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Celebrating Lightning Development

“Be excellent to each other please!”

1 min readDec 7, 2017

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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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