[bitcoin-dev] Scaling Lightning Safely With Feerate-Dependent Timelocks

2023-12-15 Thread jlspc via bitcoin-dev
TL;DR = * All known Lightning channel and factory protocols are susceptible to forced expiration spam attacks, in which an attacker floods the blockchain with transactions in order to prevent honest users from putting their transactions onchain before timelocks expire. * Feerate-Dependent Ti

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Altruistic Rebroadcasting - A Partial Replacement Cycling Mitigation

2023-12-15 Thread Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev
Hi Peter, > Altruistic third parties can partially mitigate replacement cycling(1) attacks > by simply rebroadcasting the replaced transactions once the replacement cycle > completes. Since the replaced transaction is in fact fully valid, and the > "cost" of broadcasting it has been paid by the re