Re: [Lightning-dev] Superbolt Proposal - a professionally run LN subset delivering superior UX

2020-03-02 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Robert, Unfortunately, this proposal is basically a proposal to split the network into a central network of specially-chosen nodes surrounded by second-class and third-class nodes that are utterly dependent on the central network, which I personally find disturbing. Of course, it

[Lightning-dev] Superbolt Proposal - a professionally run LN subset delivering superior UX

2020-03-02 Thread Robert Allen
Superbolt Proposal *Introduction* Currently, the LN user experience is far from retail ready. Inbound/outbound channel liquidity issues and node dropouts mean that many payment attempts will not succeed. I have spent some time thinking through these issues and believe a BOLT specification which

Re: [Lightning-dev] Sphinx Rendezvous Update

2020-03-02 Thread Christian Decker
Hi Bastien, thanks for verifying my proposal, and I do share your concerns regarding privacy leaks (how many hops are encoded in the onion) and success ratio if a payment is based on a fixed (partial) path. > I believe this makes it quite usable in Bolt 11 invoices, without blowing up > the size