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

2020-03-18 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Robert, > > This shows the issue: what they measured was *the number of rat tails > > shown*, not *the reduction of rats in the city*, and so they got shown a > > lot of rat tails (at the expense of actively increasing the number of rats > > in the city, since they were now being

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

2020-03-18 Thread Robert Allen
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 5:11 AM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning Robert, > > > How did you know that I'm a closet furry?! ;) I'm shaking in my > onesie right now... > > It was so obvious, my furdar was picking up your furriness just from > parsing the individual bytes arising from your email

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

2020-03-10 Thread ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev
Good morning Robert, > How did you know that I'm a closet furry?! ;) I'm shaking in my onesie right  > now... It was so obvious, my furdar was picking up your furriness just from parsing the individual bytes arising from your email server. > It is definitely not my goal to split the network up

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

2020-03-09 Thread Robert Allen
Hello ZmnSCPxj, How did you know that I'm a closet furry?! ;) I'm shaking in my onesie right now... It is definitely not my goal to split the network up but rather to provide some guide rails to help ensure usability and decentralization. I also agree 100% that Tor nodes are a must for LN. In

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