How will Lightning Network(s) improve scalability and privacy in Bitcoin? What is the Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT) interoperability standard? How many implementations are there? Onion-routed, anonymous payments payments. Are there centralisation risks?

Note: In this video I said, "There is also a company called Lightning Network", but I misspoke. The company name is "Lightning Labs". As I explained, the Lightning Network is an open protocol, like Bitcoin, and is a collaboration between 6 teams & companies producing open source software to a common specification.

Chapters
0:00 How confident are you that lightning networks will bring the desired scalability and security to the network?
0:35 I've already been running a beta test software
1:04 Bolt
2:30 Companies that's been doing interoperability testing
4:15 Onion routing protocol
6:38 Will lightning itself become centralized? Are there particular incentives to run a hub?
8:58 Lightning Network Daemon

lnd (Lightning Labs), c-lightning (Blockstream), eclair (ACINQ):
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/l...
https://github.com/ElementsProject/li...
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair

Integration tests: https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-i...

BOLT RFC - https://github.com/lightningnetwork/l...

Onion Routing implementation - https://github.com/LightningNetwork/l...

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