Hedgehog: A protocol for improved layer two bitcoin payments

Hedgehog is a protocol for two party payment channels. Hedgehog channels are similar to lightning channels but with a few comparative benefits. Learn more on my github:
github.com/supertestnet/hedgehog
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[@antonionevesdasilva8032]

Seems impressive. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@bitcoinheiro]

Nice, maybe good for private channels on the edge, connected to LSPs... Reduces burden to end-user at the edge of the network

[@BITC0IN]

cool @ Me in the whitepaper 😂

[@MrCoreyTexas]

OK, so I guess the problem is, you need 3 transactions to open and close a Hedgehog channel, whereas in Lightning you only need 2. Just a question on what you want to tradeoff.

[@globalmerchantio]

Excellent thank you very much anything for potential B2B use is much appreciated.

[@highlevelbitcoin]

Happy to be of service

[@MrCoreyTexas]

Just started watching this video, it sounds like it could be a lightning killer at first glance. I think the fact that the recipient has to be online to receive the payments is a huge disadvantage for Lightning. I saw a recent article, we're seeing lightning nodes actually go offline, and they were trying to spin it as positive somehow (seems like a cope).

[@ZQ1995fly]

Cool stuff. Let's implement it now?

[@highlevelbitcoin]

Yes, let's

[@holmybeer]

The idea of connectors is pretty cool. I've heard people talking about conditions like: do X iff UTXO A exists. But we can't do this in script, and it would be a horrible idea do sf in. But a solution that doesn't involve arbitrary UTXO set introspection is awesome! I'll take a further look at the payment protocol, it seems really promising. Thanks for sharing

[@highlevelbitcoin]

but we *can* do it in script OP_CHECKSIG is a script opcode and any signature it checks must commit to at least one input. When you use OP_CHECKSIG on a signature that commits to input utxo A, your transaction will fire iff utxo A exists

[@freezyAndHaze]

Very cool. Thanks for your work. How much sooner can I get Lambo due to this? :3

[@atulyadav4722]

Great work bro

[@Lunaticoin]

Great idea! I suppose no payment routing would be complicated right?

[@highlevelbitcoin]

I think you could route payments the same way lightning routes them, with a chain of htlcs that ends at your destination. Only difference is, your recipient could be offline. You send him or her the data he or she needs to redeem his htlc, and he or she collects it the next time he or she gets online

[@PhilKingstonByron]

Great Work! Well Done.

[@ThesGt]

Great stuff ! So this is not LN right? This is another new L2 that works similar to LN?

[@highlevelbitcoin]

exactly correct a hedgehog wallet could be fully backward compatible with lightning though, so in some sense hedgehog is like a lightning extension or plugin

[@louferlou8752]

But are you casually just saying that you solved asynch payment for LN ? 🤣@@highlevelbitcoin

[@ThesGt]

@@highlevelbitcoin excellent, great accomplishment love it

[@JK-dx7ex]

Man you are building some awesome functions, ? Could this be used with a BlockStream Satellite base station for the online account, then to allow multiple offline accounts to do transaction? No need for internet. And can a seed signer be used for this ?

[@highlevelbitcoin]

A seed signer can be used for this I don't know much about the blockstream satellite but if you're just using it to get block data, that should work

[@steemium]

🙌🙌

[@jaonoctus21]

Bro chill

[@highlevelbitcoin]

can't stop won't stop

[@MiguelMedeiros]

@@highlevelbitcoin never give up, never surrender!

[@varlam_volkov]

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