bitcoin-data

Tag: gossip

2 datasets

Lightning Network gossip capture (gossip-observer)

Lightning Network gossip messages as sent and received by instrumented LDK nodes, with microsecond timestamps per message, peer and direction, published as monthly Parquet archives. The collectors connect to peers chosen across network communities and export their captures to Zenodo. Useful for studying gossip propagation, fanout and peer sync behaviour; messages sent by collectors are mostly replies to sync requests, not relays.

Lightning Network topology gossip datasets (lnresearch)

Lightning Network gossip history: channel_announcement, channel_update and node_announcement messages as raw bzip2-compressed message streams, one file per snapshot. Extracted after deduplication from the gossip_store files of the authors' c-lightning nodes, with checksums and a reader snippet in the README. Useful for reconstructing the network topology and channel policies at any point in time; gossip is lossy by design, so the collection is best effort.