Sergei Tikhomirov
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spam-prevention.md
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* they are able to quickly create many seemingly unrelated nodes |
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* they may already have long-lived channels (good reputation) |
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* they might probe in real-time channel balances to adjust their spams |
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* they might send long-held HTLCs, those ones unobservable from the set of honest long-held HTLCs |
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* they might send long-held HTLCs that are indistinguishable from honest long-held HTLCs |
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There are important properties of Lightning that we must absolutely preserve: |
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## Watchtower Credit Exhaustion |
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Considering the upcoming deployment of public watchtowers, a LN node may have to pay a cost |
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per-channel update to avoid a watchtower ressource DoS. A malicious counterparty continously |
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per-channel update to avoid a watchtower resource DoS. A malicious counterparty continously |
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updating a channel may force the victim to exhaust its watchtower credit, thus knocking-out |
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victim revocation protection. |
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