Episode notes
Seres Istvan [@Istvan_A_Seres] explains that the Bitcoin Lightning is a network of nodes who have payment channels in between them, this is a small world graph of 6 degrees of separation. The privacy guarantee of Lightning is that one node inside the route should not discover the origin and destination of the payment.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00764.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00333.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09432.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09256.pdf