  It is now a whole year since Lightning Network (LN) has been launched on the
Bitcoi's mainnet. LN has been claimed as the solution for several of Bitcoin's
weaknesses such as its difficulty to scale in number of transactions per second
and its expensiveness for relative small amount exchanged. LN is based upon a
network of micro-channels opened and closed by issuing transactions on the
Blockchain and capable to interact among themselves thanks to the Multi-hop
framework. In this work I analysed the evolution of LN from its topological
point of view and tried to understand how it impacts over some of Bitcoin's
historical core foundamentals such as the resilience against attacks and
failures and the user's anonymity. Another question I have tried to answer is
whether the evolution of LN's topology will make its synchronization easier.
