Re: [Lightning-dev] Liquidity Ads and griefing subtleties

2023-12-12 Thread Keagan McClelland
Hey y'all, When these sorts of debates arise it prompts me to want to take a step back and do a more fundamental analysis of what's going on. The question I have before we even get to the starting line of implementation is "What is actually being bought?". It appears to me that what the buyer

Re: [Lightning-dev] Spending `to_local` output of commitment

2023-05-19 Thread Keagan McClelland
Hi Benjamin, Keep in mind that the to_local output is only spendable after the delay period which means it is not a valid transaction (and won't show up in the mempool) until the output becomes spendable. This is also true for HTLC outputs if the channel type has anchors. The delay period for

Re: [Lightning-dev] A Note on Public Communication

2023-05-11 Thread Keagan McClelland
Jorge, I invite you to consider reading your emails before you send them. During this reread, I specifically encourage you to do so with the frame of mind of how your words will be read and understood by others on this mailing list. The people on this list may have varying levels of familiarity

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

2020-05-14 Thread Keagan McClelland
> It should be therefore a top priority to make the UX of connecting my mobile LN client to my home full node extremely easy, so that centralised services can't improve much on that step. Especially if I already run a full node. For what it's worth, this is a main research area for us at Start9

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

2020-05-08 Thread Keagan McClelland
exposure for serving something like bip157 filters without removing your own ability to make use of some of those same services. Keagan On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:51 PM Braydon Fuller wrote: > On 5/6/20 9:07 PM, Keagan McClelland wrote: > > > I think that one of the solutions here is

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

2020-05-06 Thread Keagan McClelland
d now you may have consensus capture by those.. > > Le mer. 6 mai 2020 à 12:00, Keagan McClelland > a écrit : > >> Hi Antoine, >> >> Consensus capture by miners isn't the only concern here. Consensus >> capture by any subset of users whose interests diverge from the

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

2020-05-06 Thread Keagan McClelland
Hi Antoine, Consensus capture by miners isn't the only concern here. Consensus capture by any subset of users whose interests diverge from the overall consensus is equally damaging. The scenario I can imagine here is that the more light clients outpace full nodes, the more the costs of security