Olaoluwa Osuntokun [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-07-01 📝 Original message: Hi Matt, > Ultimately, ...
📅 Original date posted:2022-07-01
📝 Original message:
Hi Matt,
> Ultimately, paying suffers from the standard PoW-for-spam issue - you
> cannot assign a reasonable cost that an attacker cares about without
> impacting the system's usability due to said cost.
Applying this statement to related a area, would you also agree that
proposals
to introduce pre-payments for HTLCs to mitigate jamming attacks is similarly
a dead end? Personally, this has been my opinion for some time now. Which
is why I advocate for the forwarding pass approach (gracefully degrade to
stratified topology), which in theory would allow the major flows of the
network to continue in the face of disruption.
-- Laolu
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📝 Original message:
Hi Matt,
> Ultimately, paying suffers from the standard PoW-for-spam issue - you
> cannot assign a reasonable cost that an attacker cares about without
> impacting the system's usability due to said cost.
Applying this statement to related a area, would you also agree that
proposals
to introduce pre-payments for HTLCs to mitigate jamming attacks is similarly
a dead end? Personally, this has been my opinion for some time now. Which
is why I advocate for the forwarding pass approach (gracefully degrade to
stratified topology), which in theory would allow the major flows of the
network to continue in the face of disruption.
-- Laolu
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