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Fine. The neat thing is you can do whatever you want and so can I. And if I don't like your node I can just not connect to your node and you can do to my node the same.
Easy, right? Problem solved again.
110 sats \ 5 replies \ @BITC0IN 19h
I mean that depends. part of the problem is peoples ignorance surrounding this issue.
disclosure seems prudent to me.
fyi: despite that blocksonly code you reference being in place, it does not functionally work when I tested sending bitcoin in the field with my own node. there may be other factors at work though, i did not test this extensively.
another draw back of being blocksonly=1 is that my peers (i'd say most) start to disconnect from me, since they think I'm a bad peer.
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166 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 18h
it does not functionally work when I tested sending bitcoin in the field with my own node
I remember it used to be like that - with 0.12 or so - but it should be fixed now. iirc the main issue is that since smartfees tracks the number of blocks it took for a tx to be mined since we saw it, there is no good fee estimation (though this could be fixed.)
I run a blocksonly node to serve history for others' IBD over tor, but I've compiled it w/o wallet so I cannot test it quickly right now (and I don't really like testing on mainnet anyway). I'll build and run some reproducible tests tomorrow, because it should work (as permissioned txs should be forwarded as well, so I'll test that too) - and if not, I think that it's patch-worthy - I'd gladly work on a fix if this was regressed (and with it supply a test with higher coverage.)
my peers (i'd say most) start to disconnect from me
There are 2 blocks-only slots and 8 non-blocks-only outgoing connection slots per node, so you'll serve a smaller subset of total connections, yes, and it'll take longer to serve many incoming peers.
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @BITC0IN 18h
iirc I only had one consistent peer when being blocksonly=1 when trying to sync to the chaintip. once at the chaintip I think i got more peers, but still very few.
Thanks for looking into this, me and the one other user in the world who used this feature appreciate it.
oh also, there's some edge cases with lightning nodes who switch blocksonly=1 on too. terrible cases of channel opens being stuck in some instances (just me lol) that required LND updates to flush out.
also,
put me in the release notes! ;D
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 18h
there's some edge cases with lightning nodes
If LND now supports blocksonly then that's an awesome improvement that I didn't know worked. I remember needing a mempool for it to work in the past.
put me in the release notes! ;D
lol!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @BITC0IN 17h
If LND now supports blocksonly then that's an awesome improvement that I didn't know worked. I remember needing a mempool for it to work in the past.
no I don't think it does work, which is what I found out the hard way with some stuck channel opens.
Might be worth it for LND to disable that argument actually, now that I think about. it's a foot gun that I used well to clean the toes of my node.
go make a PR and claim credit!
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 16h
go make a PR and claim credit!
I'd literally have to do it under this nym to maintain at least some semblance of nymity - it's throwaway so there won't be real credit. Which is great.
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