📅 Original date posted:2015-08-13
📝 Original message:
Ah nice,
Yea this is pretty much the same. :)
It seemed too trivial for me as well. I wonder why everyone thinks
that CLTV+CSV is the mandatory minimum we need for a full LN though.
Granted, it's not as much 'fun' as you put it, but it would work very
nice in most instances.
2015-08-13 22:06 GMT+02:00 Joseph Poon <joseph at lightning.network>:
> Hi Mats,
>
> Yes, I agree that this is a possibility.
>
> I had discussed this model of OP_CLTV without OP_CSV using a balance
> reserve on the mailing list, along with some caveats on the
> risks/effects of doing so.
>
> Message ID: 20150727193714.GA16768 at lightning.network
> Link:
> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-July/000070.html
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 08:37:18PM +0200, Mats Jerratsch wrote:
>> Joseph asked, what changes OP_CLTV would bring to my Thunder proposal,
>> and I started working out, how much is actually possible with only
>> CLTV implemented.
>
> I think very minor changes to the code would result in full lightning
> channels, as per Rusty's doc, yes. I think there will be huge benefits
> to Bitcoin if bitcoinj has an implementation ready when OP_CLTV/OP_CSV
> is implemented.
>
> --
> Joseph Poon