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Enhancing E-cash with Lightning Network
The chapter explores the crucial role of the Lightning Network in enabling fast and secure settlement for e-cash transactions, reflecting on its evolution and current status. It emphasizes the benefits of lightning for interoperability, multipath payments, and facilitating multiple mints to pay a single invoice simultaneously, showcasing its potential for optimizing payment reliability and cost flows. The speaker discusses research on payment failures in the Lightning Network, pointing towards connectivity and liquidity distribution as key factors affecting payment success.