Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-01 📝 Original message: Andy Schroder <info at ...
📅 Original date posted:2018-01-01
📝 Original message:
Andy Schroder <info at AndySchroder.com> writes:
> I understand that you have to be in agreement with your direct peers. So
> you don't really care about what agreements others in your route may
> have in place? I would think that you would choose not to route through
> hops that violate your capacity limit.
I'm failing to see why I'd care about a remote channel's capacity, aside
from it being large enough to cover the amount I want to transfer. As a
participant routing through a channel that has a higher capacity I do
not incur any additional risk than from a smaller channel, since the
payment is guaranteed to be atomic. In the contrary one could argue that
a higher capacity channel has a higher probability of having sufficient
capacity in the desired direction to forward my transfer.
Maybe I'm failing to see something? I always interpreted the limit as
purely self-defense on how much value I'm confident enough to keep in a
channel.
Cheers,
Christian
📝 Original message:
Andy Schroder <info at AndySchroder.com> writes:
> I understand that you have to be in agreement with your direct peers. So
> you don't really care about what agreements others in your route may
> have in place? I would think that you would choose not to route through
> hops that violate your capacity limit.
I'm failing to see why I'd care about a remote channel's capacity, aside
from it being large enough to cover the amount I want to transfer. As a
participant routing through a channel that has a higher capacity I do
not incur any additional risk than from a smaller channel, since the
payment is guaranteed to be atomic. In the contrary one could argue that
a higher capacity channel has a higher probability of having sufficient
capacity in the desired direction to forward my transfer.
Maybe I'm failing to see something? I always interpreted the limit as
purely self-defense on how much value I'm confident enough to keep in a
channel.
Cheers,
Christian