negative fees for HTLC relay



Summary:

In a discussion on the Lightning Network mailing list, Benjamin Mord suggested the idea of allowing negative fees to incentivize nodes to unwind in scenarios where it is cheaper than on-chain rebalancing. This idea had previously been discussed by Rusty Russell, who had implemented it in his original implementation but found it to be a strange idea that complicated routing.


Updated on: 2023-05-24T18:33:45.772132+00:00