Joseph Poon
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Joseph Poon is the co-author of the original Lightning Network whitepaper alongside Thaddeus Dryja, published in 2016. His work on payment channels and hash time-locked contracts became the foundation for Bitcoin's most widely deployed Layer 2 scaling solution. He has since contributed to other blockchain scaling research.
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- Role
- Lightning Network Co-inventor
- Known For
- Co-authored the Lightning Network whitepaper (2016)
- Nationality
- American
- Twitter Handle
- jcp
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