What is Nostr?
pkt / Peter Todd
npub1ej4…ndrm
2024-02-20 17:55:47
in reply to nevent1q…uygg

pkt on Nostr: HTLCs go to fees for the commitment transaction when the HTLC amount is too low. This ...

HTLCs go to fees for the commitment transaction when the HTLC amount is too low. This is incentive compatible, because failing to follow the protocol results in the other side closing the channel, depriving the attacker of fee revenue. All this works.

The only problem here is poorly coded lightning implementations that underestimated fees. That's a fairly easily fixable problem.

The super majority of payments that my Lightning nodes route are under 500 sats, and thus not actually represented with HTLCs. That's dozens of payments a day without problems. Bigger nodes of course do even more traffic.





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