Re: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-25 Thread Antoine Riard
Hi Zeeman, > i.e. I send my high-fee RBF-enabled channel funding to you, at the same time I send a conflicting low-fee RBF-disabled transaction (that pays the entire channel amount to myself) to all the miners I can find. Mapping miners mempools will be a cost in spying infrastructure and thus ma

Re: [Lightning-dev] Witness asymmetric payment channels

2020-08-25 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Lloyd, I think this is excellent work overall. With that said... > - It is more elegant as there are half the number of possible transactions. > I > expect this will follow through to reduced implementation complexity and > maybe > make it easier to explain as well. I

[Lightning-dev] Witness asymmetric payment channels

2020-08-25 Thread Lloyd Fournier
# Abstract This is a proposal for a new channel symmetric channel construction that uses the key idea from a recent paper called "Generalized Bitcoin-Compatible Channels"[1] and tries to practically apply it to lightning. If you prefer, you can read the rendered markdown version here: https://gith

Re: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for skip channel confirmation.

2020-08-25 Thread Roei Erez
Hi Matt and thanks for your notes. On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 22:22, Matt Corallo wrote: > > A few notes. > > Given gossip messages will be rejected by many nodes if no such on-chain > transaction exists, I don't think you can > "re-broadcast" gossip messages at that time, instead I believe you simp