[Lightning-dev] Improving payment UX with low-latency route probing

2018-10-31 Thread Fabrice Drouin
Context == Sent payments that remain pending, i.e. payments which have not yet been failed or fulfilled, are currently a major UX challenge for LN and a common source of complaints from end-users. Why payments are not fulfilled quickly is not always easy to investigate, but we've seen problems

[Lightning-dev] Recovering protocol for Lightning network

2018-10-31 Thread Margherita Favaretto
Good morning dev-lightning community, Last weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in "LightningHackdayNYC". It was an incredible event, thanks to all organizers, to all speakers and all people available to share all own knowledge. Discussing with the people of the community, I could define

Re: [Lightning-dev] RFC: simplifications and suggestions on open/accept limits.

2018-10-31 Thread Gert-Jaap Glasbergen
Hi Rusty, I think your suggestion for funding_satoshis makes sense. Making a too small channel ends up being completely consumed by fees and in practice not usable. As for htlc_minimum_msat I would not feel good about it being dropped. It is the only protection measure I saw in the standard agai

[Lightning-dev] Proposal for "local" channel announcements.

2018-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
I'm not sure if this is too large a hammer for a small problem, but I thought it worth writing up. Currently, a node with only private channels loses deniability of payments; if you have an unannounced channel with me, I can be fairly sure any payment I see coming from that channel is from you (in