From: Joseph Poon <joseph@lightning•network>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] What Lightning Is
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 21:39:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150810043913.GB1758@lightning.network> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T03BXULmu_mNq+3Qd-68CYpYy67+CpMV9hCYaYb1Bc+1A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Gavin,
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 06:44:08PM -0400, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I'd love to see somebody write up a higher-level description of what the
> user experience is like, what communication happens underneath, and what
> new pieces of infrastructure need to get built to make it all work.
I'm writing a (hopefully more accessible) summary on Lightning
currently. It might not go into too much detail with infrastructure, but
is a bit more UX focused.
> A customer starts with eleven on-chain bitcoin. They want to pay for a nice
> cup of tea. Walk me through what happens before/during/after the
> transaction, assuming I have a lightning-enabled wallet on my iPhone and
> the tea shop has a lightning-enabled cash register.
>
> Assume neither the customer nor the tea shop are technically sophisticated
> -- assume the customer is using an SPV wallet and the tea shop is using a
> service similar to Bitpay.
It's a bit of a tangent, but I see it as necessary that all Lightning
services/wallets support on-chain payments for a multitude of reasons,
including usability and long-term security/fungibility. For that reason,
the UX flow for payment after channels are established should not be
significantly different than Payment Protocol based payment flows (with
the only exception being a possible additional fee dialog box/alert when
the fees will be higher than expected/on-chain).
--
Joseph Poon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-10 4:39 UTC|newest]
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2015-07-30 14:25 [bitcoin-dev] Block size following technological growth Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 15:04 ` Greg Sanders
2015-07-30 15:12 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 16:23 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-30 16:36 ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 16:43 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-07-30 16:36 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30 17:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 18:00 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 16:56 ` Gary Mulder
2015-07-30 17:13 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-30 16:20 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 16:41 ` Suhas Daftuar
2015-07-30 16:48 ` Adam Back
2015-07-30 16:49 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-31 10:16 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 11:43 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-31 11:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 12:15 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 13:07 ` Marcel Jamin
2015-07-31 14:33 ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 14:58 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-31 15:28 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-31 20:09 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-04 10:35 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 11:04 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 11:27 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-04 11:34 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 12:10 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 13:13 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 13:28 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 13:42 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 17:59 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 13:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-04 13:54 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-04 14:30 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 14:43 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 14:45 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Alex Morcos
2015-08-05 8:14 ` Gareth Williams
2015-08-04 11:59 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-04 12:19 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-04 13:34 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-04 13:37 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-05 7:29 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-06 1:26 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 13:40 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 14:06 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 14:21 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 14:53 ` Pieter Wuille
[not found] ` <CABsx9T0B2bZrFHxYR_QNwBmxskQx31zt=QE5BJAYjcOo7wbo3A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-06 15:24 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 15:26 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 18:43 ` Michael Naber
2015-08-06 18:52 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 16:06 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 16:30 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 17:00 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 17:09 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 21:35 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 22:53 ` Adam Back
2015-08-08 16:54 ` Dave Scotese
2015-08-07 17:50 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-07 18:05 ` Jameson Lopp
2015-08-07 18:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-07 21:43 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-07 22:00 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-06 16:19 ` [bitcoin-dev] " Tom Harding
2015-08-06 21:56 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-06 15:25 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 16:03 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 16:11 ` Mike Hearn
2015-08-06 17:15 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 19:42 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-06 20:01 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-06 21:51 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-06 23:09 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-10 19:28 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-11 5:48 ` Elliot Olds
2015-08-09 18:46 ` [bitcoin-dev] What Lightning Is Tom Harding
2015-08-09 18:54 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-09 20:14 ` Hector Chu
[not found] ` <CAOG=w-s9KsaPwveSpgdvsVTWUDV77YY7Em7NZGyxSQMMCccYSg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-08-09 20:48 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-10 4:48 ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-10 17:03 ` odinn
2015-08-10 17:14 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-08-10 17:45 ` odinn
2015-08-09 21:27 ` Tom Harding
2015-08-09 21:40 ` Chris Pacia
2015-08-09 21:45 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 21:57 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:03 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:36 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-10 1:52 ` Tom Harding
2015-08-10 3:31 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:06 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:09 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:27 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-09 22:30 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-09 22:44 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-08-09 22:51 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-10 8:27 ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-10 8:36 ` Patrick Strateman
2015-08-10 4:39 ` Joseph Poon [this message]
2015-08-10 21:02 ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 21:19 ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 21:43 ` Adam Back
2015-08-11 9:01 ` Hector Chu
2015-08-11 17:17 ` Simon Liu
2015-07-31 14:52 ` [bitcoin-dev] Block size following technological growth Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 17:46 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-02 22:35 ` Anthony Towns
2015-07-30 20:20 ` Thomas Zander
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