Re: [Lightning-dev] RouteBoost: Adding 'r=' fields to BOLT 11 invoices to flag capacity

2018-10-08 Thread Pierre
> But there's no reason to believe that the invoicer has more knowledge about > all but the last hop. I disagree: there is a good chance that the receiver is a 24/7 running merchant/website, with a full up-to-date view of the network, whereas the payer is most likely a mobile wallet with less acc

Re: [Lightning-dev] RouteBoost: Adding 'r=' fields to BOLT 11 invoices to flag capacity

2018-10-08 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Matt, In my implementation that might get into c-lightning (i.e. my pull request, which I should probably update some time before universe heat death) the r= fields are preferred, but if unable to find routes to the nodes indicated in the r= fields, we always fall back to our known

Re: [Lightning-dev] RouteBoost: Adding 'r=' fields to BOLT 11 invoices to flag capacity

2018-10-08 Thread Rusty Russell
Matt Corallo writes: > On a related note, it would be nice to get some clarity on appropriate > usage of the r= field here. > The way I had implemented it initially was that if an invoice had an r= > field any publicly-discovered last-hop routes would be ignored as the r= > data is most likely mor