Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-09 12:48:35
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William Casarin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2018-01-16 šŸ“ Original message: Benjamin Mord <ben at ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2018-01-16
šŸ“ Original message:
Benjamin Mord <ben at mord.io> writes:
> [..]
> why not allow negative fees to incent unwinding, in scenarios where nodes
> consider that cheaper than on-chain rebalancing?

This was brought up before here [1]:

Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> writes:
>> Edward Marynarz <edziumarynarz at gmail.com> writes:
>> Another trivial question: can the fee be negative? It might help with some
>> channel rebalancing.

>In my original implementation, they could be. However, that turns out
>to be a very strange idea, and complicates routing.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2017-December/000827.html

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