Re: [Lightning-dev] Lightning Pool: A Non-Custodial Channel Lease Marketplace

2020-11-16 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning laolu, Sorry for the late reply. > > A random, possibly-dumb idea is that a leased channel should charge 0 fees > > initially. > > Enforcing that is a problem, however, since channel updates are > > unilateral, and of course the lessee cannot afford to close the channel it > >

Re: [Lightning-dev] Lightning Pool: A Non-Custodial Channel Lease Marketplace

2020-11-05 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Hi Z, Thanks for such kind words! > Is there a documentation for the client/server intercommunications > protocol? Long form documentation on the client/server protocol hasn't yet been written. However, just like Loop, the Pool client uses a fully-featured gRPC protocol to communicate with the

Re: [Lightning-dev] Lightning Pool: A Non-Custodial Channel Lease Marketplace

2020-11-04 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning laolu, Thank you for your hard work! Is there a documentation for the client/server intercommunications protocol? How stable is this protocol? A thought occurs to me: * The payment of the lease effectively shifts risk from established forwarding nodes to those purchasing

[Lightning-dev] Lightning Pool: A Non-Custodial Channel Lease Marketplace

2020-11-02 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Hi y'all, We've recently released a new system which may be of interest to this list, Lightning Pool [1]. Alongside a working client [2], we've also released a white paper which goes deeper into the architecture of the system. Pool builds on some earlier ideas that were tossed around the ML