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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Flood &amp; Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.08513/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.08513/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Flood &amp; Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network — mentioned by Retric</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26318007</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2006.08513:26318007</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:46:35 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Transaction rates are not artificially kept low. You can look it up, larger blocks where allowed in the past, 1MB is a completely arbitrary size that was overkill at the time but hasn’t increased. Even 1$ transactions are quite expensive though they are often much higher. The lighting network has it’s own separate set of issues. It’s Bitcoin backed but loses some of Bitcoins advantages: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08513.pdf &amp;gt; Online Only- I don’t think there is a solution to this criticism, but not sure what the issue is. It’s simply a dependency. Shops may have issues accepting CC payments…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.08513/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Flood &amp; Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2006.08513:26168023</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:14:10 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Flood and Loot: A Systemic Attack on the Lightning Network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.08513/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Flood &amp; Loot: A Systemic Attack On The Lightning Network — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25488703</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2006.08513:25488703</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:09:19 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Flood &amp;amp; Loot: A Systemic Attack on Bitcoin&amp;#x27;s Lightning Network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2006.08513/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item></channel></rss>
