SLP68 Joost Jager - Lightning Loop Out/In, and Lightning Network Criticisms

Joost Jager, Lightning Network Infrastructure Engineer at Lightning Labs, joins me in this episode to talk about Lightning Loop Out and In. We also discuss some of the recent criticisms of the Lightning Network by Peter Rizun. We talk: 

• How Lightning Loop helps you manage inbound liquidity, or pay with BTC on chain to get outgoing capacity on a lightning channel
• Practical uses of Lightning Loop technology
• Some of the technicals behind how Lightning Loop e.g. hodlinvoice
• Thoughts and responses to Peter Rizun's criticisms of the Lightning Network

Joost Jager links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/joostjgr 
• Loop Out post: https://blog.lightning.engineering/technical/posts/2019/04/15/loop-out-in-depth.html 
• Lightning Labs: https://lightning.engineering/index.html#home 

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