eclair

Yes, the spec is open and contributed to by the main implementations, all open source. https://github.com/lightning/bolts https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning

This is pure FUD. Satoshi himself proposed the first version of payment channels [1]. The Lightning Network paper has zero authors from Blockstream [2]. At least two other entirely independent companies are working on Lightning Network implementations [3][4]. It's well understood how trustless LN transactions work [5]. The spec [6] and code are open source, feel free to look for a "backdoor". 1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_channels#Nakamoto_high-fr... 2. https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf 3. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd 4. https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair 5. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hashed_Timelock_Contracts 6. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc

Sure. - Onion Routing Protocol: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/maste... - P2P Node and Channel Discovery https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/maste... This repo contains specs for a lot of parts of the LN, although probably there may be changes I imagine. As for code, one of the implementations, LND (Go): https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/routing but there are at least 3 other implementations in the works. https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning (clang) https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair (Scala) https://github.com/mit-dci/lit (Go)

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that Lightning Network is vaporware, but there are currently three implementations that pass the integration tests: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/

That is a very pessimistic view on the current state of LN. There are three independent open-source LN implementations [1, 2, 3] out there that are being worked on and already implement basic functionality. All three contribute to an document, called Basics Of The Lightning Network (BOLT) [4], which forms an open standard for LN. I wouldn't call it vaporware. Yes, there are unsurprisingly open questions. But nothing which can't be solved. 1: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd 2: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair 3: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning 4: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc

Sorry, I was thinking of https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair (probably because of the letters a c q) Channel monitoring will be outsourced. I did not claim everything was finished, but it is far from pie-in-the-sky. Off-chain scaling is the only way to scale bitcoin as a day-to-day payment system, and always has been. This must have been clear to everybody from the start.