Hey *,
There's been discussions on twitter and elsewhere advocating for
setting the BOLT#7 fee_base_msat value [0] to zero. I'm just writing
this to summarise my understanding in a place that's able to easily be
referenced later.
Setting the base fee to zero has a couple of benefits:
- it
Good morning Daki,
While certainly a very imaginative approach to the problem, do note that there
is a substantive difference between running a Bitcoin fullnode and running a
Lightning forwarding node.
Namely:
* A Bitcoin fullnode does not risk any lockup of its funds just to run.
* A
This text was brought to life by repelling magnet forces of reading
ZmnSCPxj's Algorithm For Channel Fee Settings. Thank you, Zmn! Bitcoin has
taught me to just do nothing and it would probably be preferable in this
case as well, but here is my 5msat.
# Introduction
Zero Fee Lightning Network
Introduction
As use of Lightning grows, we should consider delegating more and more tasks to
programs.
Classically, decisions on *where* to make channels have been given to
"autopilot" programs, for example.
However, there remain other tasks that would still appreciate delegation
