Lightning Network Crashes Due to BTC Transaction

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Burak Kedjeli, founder of the Bitmatrix platform, has recently created and executed a complex transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain that has temporarily disabled part of the Lightning Network micropayment network.

As an experiment, Kedjeli made a multisig transaction using 998 private keys out of 999 maximum possible. When transferring less than a dollar in Bitcoin, he paid a fee of about $4.9.

The operation caused problems for LN node operators whose clients could not synchronize with the network, whichwas caused by exceeding the maximum size of the “witness” script.

According to developers, the crash was due to a bug in the btcd parsing library.

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