Sergi Delgado joins us to discuss Watchtowers, his prior work in Bitcoin and Lightning privacy, Python vs. Rust and the impact of Eltoo.

We cover:

- Sergi’s prior research

- Mapping Network Topology Research (02:46)

- Should we pay for failed payments? (14:19)

- HTLC withholding vs. HTLC hodling (15:48)

- Is Lightning flawed when it comes to privacy? (16:32)

- Watchtowers (17:44)

- Building on LDK (24:20)

- Altruistic towers vs professional services (30:21)

- More privacy considerations in Lightning (34:11)

- Monitoring and reacting paradigm (44:04)

- Storage and Eltoo (50:06)

- Professional tower revenue models - subscription vs. bounties (53:00)

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