Re: [Lightning-dev] Research on proactive fee free channel rebalancing in the friend of a friend network / and roadmap for a protocol extension

2020-01-07 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning again Rene, An observation I would like to make is that, as I understand it, the model inherently assumes that all nodes are equally likely to be payer and equally likely to be payee. While in a complete economy this is to be expected (the "customer" of a "merchant" will be an "em

Re: [Lightning-dev] Research on proactive fee free channel rebalancing in the friend of a friend network / and roadmap for a protocol extension

2020-01-07 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Rene, I am glad my question has triggered such interest from you! I will confess that I do not yet understand the math you demonstrated and have not seen your program at all yet. It is a good thing as well that it can be used to derive routehints for invoices. I do have a follow-u

Re: [Lightning-dev] Research on proactive fee free channel rebalancing in the friend of a friend network / and roadmap for a protocol extension

2020-01-07 Thread René Pickhardt via Lightning-dev
Good morning ZmnSCPxj, and list, the answer to your question is absolutely yes and we can can achieve this actually in a very simple and elegant way. Please find attached a clear and simple adaption of the algorithm described from the paper for a general multipath payment and a small python code

Re: [Lightning-dev] Byzantine nodes in Lightning network

2020-01-07 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Subhra, > Is there any literature available on how protocols would get affected in > presence of Byzantine nodes ? I am unaware of such. In any case, when considering Byzantine faults, a Byzantine fault occurs where one node appears functional to some subset of the the system, bu