Yet another centralized service (Lightspark) being a menace to the network by doing evil probing is not fixing Lightning.

In order to promote self-custody, we need tools to improve reliability for self-custodial wallets:

- Native probing (BOLT14)

- Blinded paths

- Stuckless payments

- Async payments

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Haven't heard of bolt 14 before, got links?

Sure, see here: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/780

Author is René Pickhardt.

Some of the comments to this proposal is just peak insanity IMO.

Oh this isn't probing, just revealing balance

There are many other approaches to improve payment success rate, let’s not jump on the least private option as step one.

Friend of a Friend Network, cool

Yep pretty good stuff