[Lightning-dev] Do we really want users to solve an NP-hard problem when they wish to find a cheap way of paying each other on the Lightning Network?

2021-08-26 Thread René Pickhardt via Lightning-dev
Dear fellow lightning developers, with a mixture of shock and disbelief I have been following the (semi) public discussions for the last 6 weeks and the reaction of some companies / people that reached out to me. I have to say I am really surprised by the amount of hesitation that - despite obviou

Re: [Lightning-dev] [bitcoin-dev] Removing the Dust Limit

2021-08-26 Thread Billy Tetrud
One interesting thing I thought of: the cost of maintenance of the dust creates a (very) small incentive to mine transactions that *use* dust outputs with a slightly lower fee that contain dust, in order to reduce the future maintenance cost for themselves. However, the rational discount would like