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Anthony Towns [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-09 13:04:09
in reply to nevent1q…r749

Anthony Towns [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2021-10-12 📝 Original message: On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2021-10-12
📝 Original message:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 04:18:37AM +0000, ZmnSCPxj via Lightning-dev wrote:
> > A+P + max(0, B'-B)*0.1 to Alice
> > B-f - max(0, B'-B)*0.1 to Bob

> So, if what you propose is widespread, then a theft attempt is costless:

That's what the "max" part prevents -- if your current balance is B and
you try to claim an old state with B' > B for a profit of B'-B, Alice
will instead take 10% of that value.

(Except maybe all the funds they were trying to steal were in P' rather
than B'; so better might have been "A+P + max(0, min(B'+P'-B)*0.1, B)")

Eltoo would enable costless theft attempts (ignoring fees), particularly
for multiparty channels/factories, of course, so getting the game theory
right in advance of that seems worth the effort anyway.

Cheers,
aj
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