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Is this a feature that can be client side through LND or Core? Or would it have to be a whole BOLT iteration?
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

no, it's a peer to peer network thing

lightning is based on Sphinx https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/Sphinx_Oakland09.pdf

it uses a source-routed onion encryption layering scheme

https://github.com/indra-labs/indra was my attempt to turn that into a whole network transport protocol, i did that work from late 2022 to 2023

one of the things that i figured out during that research and development work i was doing was that in order to make this into a network transport, it needed a very fast converging, but decentralised mechanism for propagating network state... congestion is the biggest risk, nodes being offline is the obvious but congestion is the real danger, and this is exactly the same dynamic with Lightning

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

people don't know what i'm doing, or where i come from, or what i do, it almost seems like i have the curse of Cassandra

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JackTheMimic 1y ago

Most people are just surviving. It's tough to focus on very beneficial tech if the benefit isn't immediately tangible. Cypherpunks have a bias toward the privacy and anonymity value. Most people see that (incorrectly) as a shady want to hide malfeasance. As an anarchist, I understand your feeling completely. So many problems that if people listened to my distrust for the government, would have been avoided.