Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-06-28 📝 Original message: On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2022-06-28
📝 Original message:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:31:54AM -0400, Matt Corallo wrote:
> On 6/28/22 9:05 AM, Christian Decker wrote:
> > It is worth mentioning here that the LN protocol is generally not very
> > latency sensitive, and from my experience can easily handle very slow
> > signers (3-5 seconds delay) without causing too many issues, aside from
> > slower forwards in case we are talking about a routing node. I'd expect
> > routing node signers to be well below the 1 second mark, even when
> > implementing more complex signer logic, including MuSig2 or nested
> > FROST.
>
> In general, and especially for "edge nodes", yes, but if forwarding nodes
> start taking a full second to forward a payment, we probably need to start
> aggressively avoiding any such nodes - while I'd love for all forwarding
> nodes to take 30 seconds to forward to improve privacy, users ideally expect
> payments to complete in 100ms, with multiple payment retries in between.

Idle question: would it be worthwhile to allow people to opt-in to their
payments happening more slowly for privacy? At the very least it'd be fine if
payments done by automation for rebalancing, etc. happened slowly.

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