Re: [Lightning-dev] Lack of capacity field in channel_announcement makes life difficult. Why is it not there?

2018-07-29 Thread Christian Decker
They are orthogonal, I agree, but we should judge their merits independently, and not batch the discussions out of convenience. In the case of the htlc_maximum_msat I think it will not be controversial, but it should get its own proposal and discussion. Cheers, Christian On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at

[Lightning-dev] Lack of capacity field in channel_announcement makes life difficult. Why is it not there?

2018-07-29 Thread Артём Литвинович
Greetings. What was the rationale for not including channel capacity into the channel_announcement message? As things stand now, the only way to determine it is to check the blockchain, which is hard for mobile and/or light wallets. Even worse, the data is only there in the form of