Re: [Lightning-dev] Routemap scaling (was: Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0)

2019-03-31 Thread Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces
> I am forking this thread as my reply is not at all related to the JIT-Routing. Sorry I think my last reply was also getting off subject as well. Thank you for forking the thread > Nonexistent channels (i.e. channels that do not have some backing UTXO in the > Bitcoin blockchain) are not safe

Re: [Lightning-dev] Routemap scaling (was: Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0)

2019-03-31 Thread Ariel Luaces
> I am forking this thread as my reply is not at all related to the JIT-Routing. Sorry I think my last reply was also getting off subject as well. Thank you for forking the thread > Nonexistent channels (i.e. channels that do not have some backing UTXO in the > Bitcoin blockchain) are not safe

Re: [Lightning-dev] Routemap scaling (was: Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0)

2019-03-31 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Ariel, > > A good pruning heuristic is "channel capacity", which can be checked > > onchain (the value of the UTXO backing the channel is the channel capacity). > > It is good to keep channels with large capacity in the routemap, because > > such large channels are more likely to

Re: [Lightning-dev] Routemap scaling (was: Just in Time Routing (JIT-Routing) and a channel rebalancing heuristic as an add on for improved routing success in BOLT 1.0)

2019-03-31 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Rene, > > Maybe I oversee something - in that case sorry for spamming the list - but I > don't understand how you could know the distance from yourself if you don't > know the entire topology? (unless u use it on the pruned view as you > suggested)  That is correct, and the

Re: [Lightning-dev] Outsourcing route computation with trampoline payments

2019-03-31 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Rene and Pierre, An issue here (which I think also affects Rendezvous Routing) is with compatibility of the HMAC. HMAC covers the entire 1300-byte `hops_data` field. If, in order to reach the next trampoline, more than one intermediate node is inserted, would the packet that