Lightning Junkies
Lightning Junkies
Chaz
Jestopher Warns of Griefing Vulnerability on Lightning Network - LNJ041
45 minutes Posted Feb 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
Jestopher’s intro to BTC
What is Satbase? Who is it for?
The Profits of running a routing node
Insights into Lightning
Griefing Attack, the Who and the Why
Possible Mitigations of Said Griefing Attack
Jestopher’s Favorite Toys on Lightning
Where is Lightning going?
Layer Three Potential
Jestopher’s Future
Routing Noob Tips
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Transcript: https://sicksub.network/LNJ041Transcript 
This is the 41st episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Jestopher! Jestopher is best known for Satbase and his musings on being a routing node operator. He most recently wrote an article for Bitcoin Magazine, writing about a griefing vulnerability in conjunction with Joost Jager. Throughout the episode he gives some tips and tricks on how to run a Bitcoin Lightning routing node!
We talk about:
Jestopher’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jestopher_BTC
Jestopher’s Website: http://satbase.org/
Jestopher’s Griefing Article: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/good-griefing-a-lingering-vulnerability-on-lightning-network-that-still-needs-fixing
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Rabbit Holes to fall down:
Jestopher’s recommended reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Money-Andreas-M-Antonopoulos/dp/1537000454
Recommended follow, Lightning Dev known for routing:
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth
Joost Jager, originally wrote about the griefing attack that Jestopher ended up writing about, participating in, and demonstrating:
https://twitter.com/joostjgr
Circuit breaker, mitigation for griefing attack from Joost:
https://github.com/lightningequipment/circuitbreaker
One of Jestopher’s Favorite toys on Lightning, used for batch opening channels and rebalancing channels:
https://github.com/alexbosworth/balanceofsatoshis
Another toy on Lightning, app used for viewing balance of channels::
https://github.com/apotdevin/thunderhub
Jestopher’s recommendation for noobs getting into routing:
https://raspiblitz.org/