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LN #13 - Vincenzo Palazzo, LSPs & renepay plugin

The last live coding session we did on https://community.corelightning.org is my favorite so far.

We had Vincenzo Palazzo CLN Core contributor with us to discuss the following hot features available in the new CLN v23.08 release:

  • setconfig
  • listconfigs
  • experimental feature at runtime-enabled
  • experimental-splicing
  • taproot addresses / p2tr
  • renepay plugin
  • self-payment with the pay command

If you have a moment check it at Core Lightning release v23.08 live exploration.

In the next live coding session we'll talk about the builtin plugin clnrest. You're obviously invited ;)

If you are interested in LSPs you'll find Making LSP interoperable talk by Severin Alex BĂ¼hler presented at Riga 2023 really interesting.

As we're talking about LSPs you might want to watch Lightning Infrastructure Panel round table with Nick Slaney (C Equals Lead at TBD) , Roy Sheinfeld (CEO & Co-Founder, Breez), Graham Krizek (CEO & Founder, Voltage ) and Ryan Gentry (Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs) at Microstrategy World conference.

The renepay plugin released in CLN v23.08 implements "Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network" paper from Rene Pickhardt and Stefan Richter.

It can be used to send payments like this:

$ lightning-cli renepay <bolt11>

As I wanted to know more about its algorithm I looked for videos (I love videos) and I found the talk Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network by Stefan Richter itself.

Have a nice day, see you next time.