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It is now a whole year since Lightning Network (LN) has been launched on theBitcoi's mainnet. LN has been claimed as the solution for several of Bitcoin'sweaknesses such as its difficulty to scale in number of transactions per secondand its expensiveness for relative small amount exchanged. LN is based upon anetwork of micro-channels opened and closed by issuing transactions on theBlockchain and capable to interact among themselves thanks to the Multi-hopframework. In this work I analysed the evolution of LN from its topologicalpoint of view and tried to understand how it impacts over some of Bitcoin'shistorical core foundamentals such as the resilience against attacks andfailures and the user's anonymity. Another question I have tried to answer iswhether the evolution of LN's topology will make its synchronization easier.

The evolution of Lightning Network's Topology during its first year and the influence over its core values