Amazing new schemes and technologies are being developed to expand Bitcoin’s functionality as a payment instrument. The latest newcomer is Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Lightning. This scheme promises to enhance privacy and decentralization to facilitate payments over the Lightning Network.
Atomic Multi-Path Payments over Bitcoin Lightning
Bitcoin needs to establish itself as a vehicle to execute payments rapidly, securely, and cheaply. New technologies and schemes are being implemented to make possible near-instantaneous low-value Bitcoin payments.
In this connection, Conner Fromknecht and Olaoluwa Osuntokun are proposing a new scheme, which they call Atomic Multi-Path Payments (AMP) over Lightning.