René Pickhardt

Rene Pickhardt is researching the reliability of the payment process on the Lightning Network. Together with his co-authors he created an imbalance measure for Lightning nodes, proposed Just in Time Routing (JIT Routing), introduced Probabilistic payment delivery and found the optimal split of multi part payments that led to the currently best known payment routing algorithm ( aka Pickhardt Payments ). He also disclosed several vulnerabilities. As an educator Rene added the first article about the Lightning Network to the German Wikipedia, created an openly licensed 300 slides presentation diving into the protocol, answered more than 50% of all questions about the Lightning Network on Stack exchange and maintained the first youtube channel explaining the Lightning Network to developers. Rene studied Mathematics, Physics, Chinese and Computer Science and was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation.