From: Jeremy <jlrubin@mit•edu>
To: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt•org>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
lightning-dev <lightning-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>,
tarun@gauntlet•network
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Lightning-dev] Removing the Dust Limit
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 16:07:27 -0700 [thread overview]
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some additional answers/clarifications
> Question for Jeremy: would you also allow zero-value outputs? Or would
> you just move the dust limit down to a fixed 1-sat?
>
I would remove it entirely -- i don't think there's a difference between
the two realistically.
>
> Allowing 0-value or 1-sat outputs minimizes the cost for polluting the
> UTXO set during periods of low feerates.
>
>
Maybe that incentivizes people to make better use of the low
feerate periods to do more important work like consolidations so that
others do not have the opportunity to pollute (therefore eliminating the
low fee period ;)
> If your stuff is going to slow down my node and possibly reduce my
> censorship resistance, how is that not my business?
>
You don't know that's what I'm doing, it's a guess as to my future behavior.
If it weren't worth it to me, I wouldn't be doing it. Market will solve
what is worth v.s. not worth.
>
> > 2) dust outputs can be used in various authentication/delegation smart
> > contracts
>
> All of which can also use amounts that are economically rational to
> spend on their own. If you're gonna use the chain for something besides
> value transfer, and you're already wiling to pay X in fees per onchain
> use, why is it not reasonable for us to ask you to put up something on
> the order of X as a bond that you'll actually clean up your mess when
> you're no longer interested in your thing?
>
These authentication/delegation smart contracts can be a part of value
transfer e.g. some type of atomic swaps or other escrowed payment.
A bond to clean it up is a fair reason; but perhaps in a protocol it might
not make sense to clean up the utxo otherwise and so you're creating a
cleanup transaction (potentially has to be presigned in a way it can't be
done as a consolidation) and then some future consolidation to make the
dusts+eps aggregately convenient to spend. So you'd be trading a decent
amount more chainspace v.s. just ignoring the output and writing it to disk
and maybe eventually into a utreexo (e.g. imagine utreexo where the last N
years of outputs are held in memory, but eventually things get tree'd up)
so the long term costs need not be entirely bourne in permanent storage.
>
> Nope, nothing is forced. Any LN node can simply refuse to accept/route
> HTLCs below the dust limit.
>
I'd love to hear some broad thoughts on the impact of this on routing (cc
Tarun who thinks about these things a decent amount) as this means for
things like multipath routes you have much stricter constraints on which
nodes you can route payments through. The impact on capacity from every
user's pov might be not insubstantial.
>
> I also doubt your proposed solution fixes the problem. Any LN node that
> accepts an uneconomic HTLC cannot recover that value, so the money is
> lost either way. Any sane regulation would treat losing value to
> transaction fees the same as losing value to uneconomical conditions.
>
> Finally, if LN nodes start polluting the UTXO set with no economic way
> to clean up their mess, I think that's going to cause tension between
> full node operators and LN node operators.
>
My anticipation is that the LN operators would stick the uneconomic HTLCs
aggregately into a fan out utxo and try to cooperate, but failing that only
pollute the chain by O(1) for O(n) non economic HTLCs. There is a
difference between losing money and knowing exactly where it is but not
claiming it.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-08 18:52 [bitcoin-dev] " Jeremy
2021-08-08 21:14 ` Matt Corallo
2021-08-08 21:41 ` Oleg Andreev
2021-08-08 21:51 ` [bitcoin-dev] [Lightning-dev] " David A. Harding
2021-08-08 22:46 ` Jeremy
2021-08-08 23:07 ` Jeremy [this message]
2021-09-30 22:07 ` Pieter Wuille
2021-10-01 13:40 ` Erik Aronesty
2021-10-07 4:52 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-10-07 8:17 ` LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH
2021-10-07 8:34 ` LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH
2021-10-07 10:35 ` LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH
2021-10-07 9:13 ` shymaa arafat
2021-10-07 10:01 ` ZmnSCPxj
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2021-10-08 7:44 ` shymaa arafat
2021-10-08 10:38 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-10-08 22:47 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-08-09 13:22 ` Antoine Riard
2021-08-10 0:30 ` Billy Tetrud
2021-08-10 5:04 ` Jeremy
2021-08-10 5:44 ` Billy Tetrud
2021-08-10 11:37 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-08-10 18:39 ` Charlie Lee
2021-08-10 6:14 ` David A. Harding
2021-08-10 22:37 ` Antoine Riard
2021-08-11 0:46 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-08-12 22:03 ` Anthony Towns
2021-08-20 4:51 ` Jeremy
2021-08-20 5:45 ` shymaa arafat
2021-08-21 3:10 ` ZmnSCPxj
2021-08-26 21:21 ` Billy Tetrud
2021-08-27 9:07 ` shymaa arafat
2021-08-30 3:31 ` LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH
2021-08-18 19:06 shymaa arafat
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