Author: Ruben Somsen 2020-05-14 05:31:13
Published on: 2020-05-14T05:31:13+00:00
The conversation between Ruben and Dmitry revolves around the Lightning Network protocol and its potential issues. They discuss the issue of refund transaction #1 and the success transaction becoming valid at the same time. Ruben explains that this is not an issue because Alice and Bob would both have to misbehave for it to happen. They also discuss the possibility of Bob giving the success_tx to a friendly miner while refund_tx_1 is in the mempool, which could result in Bob receiving both LTC and BTC while Alice loses her BTC. Ruben clarifies that this won't happen if either of them doesn't want it to. Finally, they discuss the cooperative spend of refund_tx #1 by Alice and Bob, which is there to ensure that Bob can spend the money before Alice once he receives her key at the end of the protocol.
Updated on: 2023-06-14T01:38:56.884208+00:00