Re: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-24 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Antoine, > Hi Roei, > You might have a mechanism to lower trust in zero-conf channel opener. > Actually the local party can be in charge of broadcasting the funding > transaction, thus ensuring it's well-propagated across network mempools and > then start to accept incoming

Re: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-24 Thread Antoine Riard
Hi Roei, You might have a mechanism to lower trust in zero-conf channel opener. Actually the local party can be in charge of broadcasting the funding transaction, thus ensuring it's well-propagated across network mempools and then start to accept incoming payment on the zero-conf channel. Per BIP

Re: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-24 Thread Matt Corallo
A few notes. Given gossip messages will be rejected by many nodes if no such on-chain transaction exists, I don't think you can "re-broadcast" gossip messages at that time, instead I believe you simply need to not gossip until the funding transaction has some confirmations. Still, this

[Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-24 Thread Roei Erez
Hello everyone, I would like to discuss the ability to skip a channel funding transaction confirmation, making the channel fully operational before its on-chain confirmation (aka a zero-conf channel). Till confirmation, this channel requires trust between its two parties and in the case of a