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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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Carman 2y ago

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

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Hampus 2y ago

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.

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Carman 2y ago

Oh this isn't probing, just revealing balance

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

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