Lightning Curriculum

Subjects	Topics	Sub-topics	Sources
What is Lightning?			The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments, What is the Lightning Network and how can it help Bitcoin scale?, The Lightning Network Evolving Bitcoin into a layered system, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 1: Building a Bidirectional Bitcoin Payment Channel, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 2: Creating the Network, Understanding the Lightning Network, Part 3: Completing the Puzzle and Closing the Channel, Reaching The Ground With Lightning, Scaling Bitcoin to Billions of Transactions Per Day, 2015, Lightning Network Deep Dive with Laolu "Roasbeef" Osuntokun, The #Bitcoin #Lightning Spec, Lightning Network Glossary
What is Lightning?	Introduction	Lightning Layers	Alex Bosworth - The Lightning Protocol, an Application Design Perspective
What is Lightning?	Introduction	History of LN	Christian Decker - History of the Lightning Network, The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like, The History of Lightning: From Brainstorm to Beta
What is Lightning?	Lightning ≈ Bitcoin		Christian Decker - Lightning ≈ Bitcoin
What is Lightning?	Lightning ≈ Bitcoin	Revisting tx malleability	SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar: Transaction Malleability: Threats and Solutions
Transfer	Payment channel	General concept	Payment Channel
Transfer	Payment channel	Public channel	Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?, The open_channel Message
Transfer	Payment channel	Private channel	Exploring Lightning Network Routing
Transfer	Payment channel	Channel balance (local/remote)
Transfer	Payment channel	Exhausted channels
Transfer	Payment channel	Channel reserve	Rationale
Transfer	Transactions	BOLT	BOLT #3: Bitcoin Transaction and Script Formats
Transfer	Transactions	Funding Transaction	Funding Transactions as a Generalized Design Pattern for Offchain Protocols, Funding Transaction Output, The funding_created Message
Transfer	Transactions	Commitment Transaction	Commitment transactions, Commitment Transaction
Transfer	Transactions	Closing Transaction	Closing a Channel in Lighting Network, Closing Transaction
Transfer	Transactions	Penalty Transaction	Lightning Network ‘Penalty Scenario’ Works in Old State Channel Incident, Revoked Transaction Close Handling
Transfer	Transactions	Mutual Close	Distinguishing mutual and unilateral channel closing in the Bitcoin blockchain, Mutual Close Handling
Transfer	Transactions	Unilateral Close	Unilateral Close Handling: Local Commitment Transaction
Transfer	Transactions	Fee negotiation	BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
Transfer	HTLC	Overview	What Are Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)? Application In Lightning Network & Payment Channels,Lightning Networks Part II: Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)
Transfer	HTLC	Hashlock	HTLC implementation Bitcoin Core
Transfer	HTLC	Timelocks	Bitcoin’s Time Locks, Timelock,Bitcoin Timelocks in a nutshell
Transfer	HTLC	Revocation Key	Lightning Networks Part I: Revocable Transactions
Transfer	HTLC	Relative Locktime/CLTV	bips/bip-0065.mediawiki
Transfer	HTLC	Hash Pre-image	What is a hash pre-image as it is used for the breach remedy?,Offered HTLC Outputs
Transfer	HTLC	payment basepoint/revocation basepoint	Key Derivation
Transfer	HTLC	Per-commit secret/Commitment number	Key Derivation
Transfer	HTLC	HTLC fulfillment/failure	Removing an HTLC: update_fulfill_htlc, update_fail_htlc, and update_fail_malformed_htlc
Transfer	Payment	Invoice
Transfer	Payment	Payment Request
Update	Invoices	Bolt11 encoding	BOLT #11: Invoice Protocol for Lightning Payments
Update	Gossip	Gossip Protocol	BOLT #7: P2P Node and Channel Discovery
Update	Transactions	LN-Penalty
Update	Transactions	Eltoo payment channels	eltoo: A Simple Layer2 Protocol for Bitcoin
Update	Transactions	Querying for information
Multihop	Sphinx	Overview	Sphinx Packet, Using Sphinx to Improve Onion Routing Circuit Construction (short paper)⋆, Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format, Security Analysis of the Lightning Network
Multihop	Onion Routing	Overview	Onion Routing with HTLCs on the Lightning Network explained! - Beginner / Experts
Multihop	Onion Routing	Public vs. Private channel	Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?,Exploring Lightning Network Routing
Multihop	Onion Routing	Channel announcements	BOLT #2: Peer Protocol for Channel Management
Multihop	Onion Routing	Routing fees	The Lightning Network (Part 2) – Routing Fee Economics
Multihop	Onion Routing	Expiry delta	cltv_expiry_delta Selection
Multihop	Onion Routing	Route hints	Exploring Lightning Network Routing
Base	Framing and feature negotiation
Transport	Noise Protocol Framework	Overview	The Noise Protocol Framework The Noise Protocol Framework
Transport	Noise Protocol Framework	Noise XK	Handshake patterns, Noise Explorer
Atomic Swaps	Introduction	Overview	What are Atomic Swaps? A Beginner’s Guide,Atomic Swaps: How the Lightning Network Extends to Altcoins, Atomic Swaps, Atomic Swaps on the Lightning Network
Atomic Swaps	Submarine swaps vs. reverse swaps	Overview	Onboarding the Masses: Submarine Swaps,Alex Bosworth: Submarine Swaps on the Lightning Network
Atomic Swaps	Loops	Overview	Announcing Lightning Loop Alpha: An Easier Way to Receive on Lightning,Loop Out In-depth
Current Limitations			Lightning Network 2.0, Major Limitations of the Lightning Network
BOLTs 1.1 and the future	Proposal States		Lightning Specification 1.1 Proposal States, Lightning User Experience: A Day in the Life of Carol
BOLTs 1.1 and the future	Liquidity	Splicing
BOLTs 1.1 and the future	Liquidity	Dual Funded channels
BOLTs 1.1 and the future	Payments	AMP	AMP: Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning, Base AMP
BOLTs 1.1 and the future	Routing	Rendezvous routing	Rendez vous mechanism on top of Sphinx
The Far Future	Routing	Just in time routing	Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0
The Far Future	Onboarding	Multiparty channels / channel factories
The Far Future	Payments	Decorelation
The Far Future	Payments	Streaming Payments	BOLT 11, real time micro payments, and route redundancy
The Far Future	Payments	Refunds
The Far Future	Payments	Fast Failure
The Far Future	Scripts	Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA
Privacy considerations			How the Lightning Network Layers Privacy on Top of Bitcoin
Privacy considerations	Gossip protocol and privacy
Privacy considerations	Watchtowers		Incentivizing payment channel watchtower,Trustless Watchtowers, Architecture of LND Watchtowers Incentivizing Payment Channel Watchtowers
Privacy considerations	Channel probing attack for channel balance
Privacy considerations	Decorrelation of lightning payments		Decorrelation of Lightning Payments
Privacy considerations	SNARKs		Better privacy with SNARKs
Security/Attack Vectors	Denial of Service attacks		State of the Crypto: Lightning Network DDoS’d, Ethereum Inflation Talk, Payment channel congestion via spam-attack #182
Security/Attack Vectors	Desired topology of a high functional network	Autopilot	Improve the autopilot of bitcoin’s lightning network, Autopilot PR in c-lightning
Security/Attack Vectors	Desired topology of a high functional network	Channel management	Rebalancing in the lightning network: Analysis and implications
Security/Attack Vectors	Desired topology of a high functional network	Cyclic Superhubs	Cyclic Superhubs as Solution Towards Reasonable Lightning Network Topology
Considerations	Neutrino		Exploring Neutrino, Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning
Considerations	Pitfalls of concurrent requests
Considerations	RGB protocol
Considerations	Broadcasting channel updates		What is the status of the Lightning Network?
Implementations	LND		Lightning Network Daemon
Implementations	ptarmigan		Ptarmigan
Implementations	electrum		Electrum Implementation in Python
Implementations	rust-lightning		Rust-Lightning
Implementations	c-lightning		c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C
Implementations	Eclair		Eclair - A scala implementation of the Lightning Network.
Setting up a node			Bitcoin Lightning Network #1: Can I compile and run a node?, Beginner’s Guide to ️Lightning️ on a Raspberry Pi, My Lightning Node setup with c-lightning, Fastest and cheapest way to get your own Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD