Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the scalability issues of onboarding millions of LN mobile clients

2020-05-12 Thread Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev
On 05/05/2020 16:16, Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:01 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote: >>> Trust-minimization of Bitcoin security model has a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the scalability issues of onboarding millions of LN mobile clients

2020-05-06 Thread Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev
I do see the consensus capture argument by miners but in reality isn't this attack scenario have a lot of assumptions on topology an deployment ? For such attack to succeed you need miners nodes to be connected to clients to feed directly the invalid headers and if these ones are connected to head

Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the scalability issues of onboarding millions of LN mobile clients

2020-05-05 Thread Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:01 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Trust-minimization of Bitcoin security model has always relied first and > > above on running a full-node. This curr

Re: [bitcoin-dev] On the scalability issues of onboarding millions of LN mobile clients

2020-05-05 Thread Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev
On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Trust-minimization of Bitcoin security model has always relied first and > above on running a full-node. This current paradigm may be shifted by LN > where fast, affordable, confidential, censorship-resistant payment services >

[bitcoin-dev] On the scalability issues of onboarding millions of LN mobile clients

2020-05-05 Thread Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev
Hi, (cross-posting as it's really both layers concerned) Ongoing advancement of BIP 157 implementation in Core maybe the opportunity to reflect on the future of light client protocols and use this knowledge to make better-informed decisions about what kind of infrastructure is needed to support m