Heya Laolu,
From my PoV, adding prepayments to onion messages is putting the cart before
the horse a bit, think there's a good amount of recourse before resorting to
that.
Seems there are two cases to address here:
1. People are trying to stream GoT over lightning
In this case, just rate limi
Hi list!
This email is a belated Christmas wishlist for interested researchers to solve
an open question in lightning.
For context, recently there’s been some discussion about supporting “async
payments”[1]. Supporting this feature would mean that e.g. a mobile
noncustodial user would be able
backwards thru the route
> 6. sender eventually comes back online again to acknowledge receipt
>
> With the way LN works, once step 4 is reached, then the payment has
> effectively been completed from the PoV of the receiver (UI can update,
> etc). With AMP usage, the receiver also doesn&
Hey all,
The research question still stands, but I wanted to issue a correction to this
email –
> However, upon further investigation, it turns out that the current PTLCs
> design wouldn’t solve this problem: the LSP would be able to steal funds the
> same as before, see [3].
This is not true
Hi list!
I wanted to bring up the idea of using onion messages for payment probing,
which was briefly touched
on at the 2022 LN summit. Tadge Dryja has also brought up a similar idea.
I recommend reading the gist instead since it has the relevant diagrams in-line:
https://gist.github.com/valenti
