Book #10 - Mastering LN - Poon & Dryja's "Bitcoin Lightning Network" white paper

One more week off, if that's ok with everyone, as it seemed like many needed some extra time away, and now I need one more week myself. Let's meet on March 9. We'll begin reading the original white paper "The Bitcoin Lightning Network" by Poon & Dryja (2016) https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

We'll go through sections 1-3
(ignore 3.1.2 and 3.3.1)

Sign up to present a section of the readings to the rest of the group here - https://tamalpais.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LosGatosRG/pages/660340737/Book+10+-+Mastering+the+Lightning+Network

Join us on Discord to discuss this book selection -
Discord (https://bit.ly/35RhGXM)

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We're reading "Mastering the Lightning Network" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Rene Pickhardt. It's available on github https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook and some of it is now in "review" status with an expected publication date in late 2020. In an earlier reading group on Jimmy Song's "Programming Bitcoin", our group was able to contribute helpful corrections and improvements to that book in progress.

In conjunction with the reading material, we also may do some hackergardens. It'd be great to do these in person, but in this time of Covid-19, we plan to stick with Zoom. If you have any ideas on project ideas, please bring your suggestions.

When reading a book, we cover a chapter each meetup generally. The magic happens when you present a section of that chapter yourself. We each learn a lot more from having to present the material to each other in a peer-to-peer fashion. After each section, we pause and allow for questions and discussion, then go on to the next section, and another person presents. Sometimes we read tutorials and papers.

Each time we meet, at the end of our meetup, we just agree on the next chapter we're reading. When needed, we'll spend two meetups on one chapter

Between meetups, we have a Discord server for discussion and questions at https://bit.ly/35RhGXM
See you there!