Peter Todd on Nostr: New blog post: tl;dr: the fact that you can route over fake channels on lightning, ...
New blog post:
https://petertodd.org/2025/fake-channels-and-rgb-lightningtl;dr: the fact that you can route over fake channels on lightning, means implementing Lightning on top of client-side-validated tokens like RGB is much easier than you'd expect.
Probably not a new idea. But someone's gotta write it down...
Published at
2025-01-25 21:35:11Event JSON
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