Author: ZmnSCPxj 2018-11-09 11:32:27
Published on: 2018-11-09T11:32:27+00:00
The email conversation discusses various issues related to payment routing in the Lightning Network. The author mentions that C must ensure that the detour route taken by a payment stays within the fee limit. Even if the detour route charges a fee that is slightly lower than what C would charge, it could still be rational to take that route as there is a chance to earn some fees. However, there is a risk of pushing off a hop packet at the end by inserting a switch-ephemeral-keys hop packet, which C cannot know beforehand. Christian Decker suggests rebalancing the D->C->A cycle so that the CD link can pass the payment through, which neither earns nor loses money for C. This technique also increases the anonymity set of rendezvous routing as a rendezvous supporting node can be used for link-level payment rerouting.
Updated on: 2023-05-25T15:42:00.941222+00:00