> However, I believe that Lightning and similar offchain protocols are **not > possible** on MimbleWimble, at least if we want to retain its "magical > shrinking blockchain" property.
MimbleWimble can easily incorporate relative lock heights, in addition to absolute lock heights. Grin and Beam have included the latter since launch. Grin's proposal for relative lock heights is at [1] with discussion at [2]. Based on these, Grin also has a rough design for payment channels at [3]. Beam included relative lock heights in its recent HardFork [4] and has a payment channel design at [5]. regards, -John [1] https://github.com/antiochp/grin-rfcs/blob/relative_lock_heights/text/0000-relative-kernels.md [2] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-rfcs/pull/19 [3] https://gist.github.com/antiochp/e54fece52dc408d738bf434a14680988 [4] https://github.com/BeamMW/beam/releases/tag/beam-3.0.5654 [5] https://docs.beam.mw/laser_beam.pdf _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
