50 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 6 Aug 2022 \ on: Pricing Liquidity in Lightning Network bitcoin
Have my sats!
What are your take on having (optional) open share of public node liquidity balance so no need to probe anymore?
Something like some nodes today are using max HTLC/channel to "indicate" the available sats on that path?
In my opinion hiding public channels balance is useless and against LN path finding and is not helping at all to have more "privacy".
If you really want to use LN in a private mode, use un-announced (so called private channels or nodes) and / or trampolines channels and be happy.
Path finding algorithm today is really shit.
What are your take on having (optional) open share of public node liquidity balance so no need to probe anymore? Something like some nodes today are using max HTLC/channel to "indicate" the available sats on that path?
I think both things aren't needed if node records failures and uses bayesian estimates for payments in future like suggested by Pickhardt.
If peers trust each other they could share balances, of course. It might be graph overlay similar to Public Hosted Channels which also leverage trust.
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Indeed, we have so much to improve on LN.
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