Site Plan

The following is a high-level structure of how we would like to see this mini-site evolve. It gives some idea of our research plans and progress with that research.

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• Home

  Introduce the idea behind bolt.fun and give high-level overview of content contained

  • Invoices

    • Introduction & elements of an invoice

      > HTLCs

      > preimage

      > tlv field

    • The HODL Invoice

    • Keysend

    • Multi-part Payments

    • Lightning Offers

  • Submarine swaps

    • Introduction

    • Lightning Loop

  • Channel Management

    • Introduction

      > Opening and closing channels

    • Turbo channels

    • Lightning Pool

  • Architecture

    • Elements of a full node

      Use LDK as guide for breaking down elements

      > On-device full nodes

      > Remote controlled full nodes

    • Non-custodial partial node architectures

      Introduce concept of mixing and matching architectural pieces, and give examples of how this is done has been done so far

      > Outsourced routing

      > Outsourced …

  • Privacy

    Introducing different privacy considerations when using LN

    • Path and network analysis techniques

    • UTXOs used for channel opens

    • Submarine swaps for toxic change

  • OTT services

    • LNURL (UX improvement)

    • sphinx.chat (chat over LN)

    • lnbits (account management)

    • LNHub (account management)

    • LSP (liquidity/access providers)