Re: [Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-21 Thread Edward Marynarz
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > > It's good, though not as good as if both sender and recipient could set > > their own fees. I know it would have made everything more complicated > but > > receiving is actually more costly than sending. If you have less balance > > than

Re: [Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-11 Thread Rusty Russell
Edward Marynarz writes: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Rusty Russell > wrote: > >> >> In particular, fees are charged on entry to the channel, so if there's >> an A->B channel, A charges the fee. If you traverse B->C, B charges the >> fee, etc. >> > > Thank you for your explanations. > > It

Re: [Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-11 Thread Edward Marynarz
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > > In particular, fees are charged on entry to the channel, so if there's > an A->B channel, A charges the fee. If you traverse B->C, B charges the > fee, etc. > Thank you for your explanations. It's good, though not as good as if both se

Re: [Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-10 Thread Rusty Russell
Johan Torås Halseth writes: > Hi, Edward! Welcome to the mailing list :) > The fees can indeed be set for each direction of the channel, check out > https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/07-routing-gossip.md#the-channel_update-message > > [https://github.com/lightningnet

Re: [Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-07 Thread Johan Torås Halseth
Hi, Edward! Welcome to the mailing list :) The fees can indeed be set for each direction of the channel, check out https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/07-routing-gossip.md#the-channel_update-message [https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/07-routi

[Lightning-dev] Directionality of the transaction fees

2017-12-06 Thread Edziu Marynarz
I tried to find this information in the BOLT documents but I couldn't find it. Is it possible to set up the channel so that the fee depends on the direction, i.e. a different fee on the receive direction and different on the send one? Why such functionality? Imagine that you start with a bidirecti