[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

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 f

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

2020-03-18 Thread Robert Allen
will always fail. > With enough cheap RaspPis and some HODLed funds in 2-of-2s (where both > pubkeys are mine anyway), I can ensure that most of SBN is composed of my > "nodes" and make it worthless. > I guess it wasn't explicit in my proposal, but the intenti