Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan: Building a Lightning Network on Monero

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 7 p.m.

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TODAY'S \\U0001f399SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Sri Aravinda Krishnan, an applied cryptography post doc at CMU who has co/authored various papers that are laying the groundwork for developing a second layer on Monero, aka payment channels, akin to the lighting network on bitcoin.

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Doug and Aravinda discuss what an LN-like network on monero would look like, what developments are required on the Monero side to make payment channels possible, and much more!

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\\u23f1Timestamps:
\\n0:00 - Intro | Meeting at Monero Conference | Aravinda's Education
\\n5:06 - Monero influence on Aravinda's Thesis | OmniRing
\\n11:00 - Explaining Bi-Directional Payment Channels
\\n19:35 - Issues Implementing into Monero
\\n25:35 - Motivation for writing thesis on this subject
\\n29:20 - KeyOffset | What is holding XMR back from a layer 2 solution
\\n30:30 - Monero and Scalability
\\n32:33 - Aravind's thoughts on XMR base technology
\\n34:02 - Zcash | Atomic Swaps
\\n37:40 - What would Aravind like to see in Monero
\\n40:50 - How can the community contribute to Monero growth
\\n47:00 - Atomic Swaps
\\n49:12 - What's next for Aravind
\\n52:00 - Last words on potential XMR layer 2

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