Dmytro Piatkivskyi <dmytro.piatkivs...@ntnu.no> writes:
> Dear list, pardon me that I haven't investigated the Lightning
> implementations in depth yet, but one discussion has made me wonder how you
> approach the below described situation.
>
> Rene was talking about virtual channels in his article [1]. His motivation
> was that a company running multiple nodes has to open channels between its
> own nodes in order to transact between them.
Rene CC'd.
The issue with virtual channels is that we rely on proving that funding
transactions exist as a simple spam-prevention mechanism. However,
that's just for gossip messages which advertize a public channel.
Two things to note:
1. You can advertize anything you want in BOLT-11 `r` fields; this is
the correct place for virtual channels, or private channels. We
might also allow some kind of local channel advertisements in the
future.
2. The advertisement of existence of a channel doesn't require its use.
If you have a trust relationship you can just say "please send this"
etc.
Hope that helps!
Rusty.
> My vision of LN was to allow for much heterogeneity. Not only a company
> should be able to transact between its own nodes, but also with other
> entities it has a trust relationship with. Let me give you an example.
>
> Say I trust you unconditionally. Alice asks me to send a satoshi to Bob. I
> don't have a channel with him, but you do. No channel between us. I receive
> HTLC from Alice, give you the image. You create HTLC with Bob, using that
> image. Bob checks - everything is OK. Bob executes.
>
> The problem is source routing. Alice creates the whole payment chain, so she
> should be aware of our relationship. A solution could be advertising our
> trust as being a single node or introducing virtual channels as Rene
> suggests, constantly figuring out our respective balances. Is there a way to
> do so or do you see any other solution?
>
> I understand the word 'trust' is repulsive, but think of the case with a
> single company running multiple nodes for whatever reason.
>
> Thanks,
> Dima
>
> [1]
> https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/virtual-payment-channels-for-the-lightning-network-a-lightning-network-improvement-proposal-draft/
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