Luke Dashjr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2021-10-04 📝 Original message: On Monday 04 October 2021 ...
📅 Original date posted:2021-10-04
📝 Original message:
On Monday 04 October 2021 16:14:20 Antoine Riard wrote:
> > The "dust limit" is arbitrarily decided by each node, and cannot be
> > relied upon for security at all. Expecting it to be a given default value
> > is in itself a security vulnerability
>
> Reality is that an increasing number of funds are secured by assumptions
> around mempool behavior.
In other words, simply not secured.
> And sadly that's going to increase with Lightning growth and deployment of
> other L2s.
L2s shouldn't build on flawed assumptions.
> Maybe we could dry-up some policy rules in consensus like the dust limit
> one :)
No thanks. Not sure that would even help (since policies can always be set to
a higher dust limit than any consensus rule)
📝 Original message:
On Monday 04 October 2021 16:14:20 Antoine Riard wrote:
> > The "dust limit" is arbitrarily decided by each node, and cannot be
> > relied upon for security at all. Expecting it to be a given default value
> > is in itself a security vulnerability
>
> Reality is that an increasing number of funds are secured by assumptions
> around mempool behavior.
In other words, simply not secured.
> And sadly that's going to increase with Lightning growth and deployment of
> other L2s.
L2s shouldn't build on flawed assumptions.
> Maybe we could dry-up some policy rules in consensus like the dust limit
> one :)
No thanks. Not sure that would even help (since policies can always be set to
a higher dust limit than any consensus rule)