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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | Bitcoin payments inside penalty-backed channels, routed with hashed timelocks. |
| Who may write | The two parties to a channel. The base chain still judges a dispute. |
| What is settled | Off-chain balance updates. The chain settles the opening, the dispute, or the close. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Parties can get an old-state penalty on-chain in time. The script rules are Bitcoin's, as specified then. |
| What this library says afterwards | Implementations diverged from the draft. The study keeps the draft and the network apart. |
| Rights | Official external source only |