On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 05:05:48PM -0400, Matt Corallo wrote:
> Sadly this only is really viable for pre-anchor channels. With anchor
> channels the attack can be performed by either side of the closure, as the
> HTLCs are now, at max, only signed SIGHASH_SINGLE|ANYONECANPAY, allowing you
> to add more inputs and perform this attack even as the broadcaster.
> 
> I don't think its really viable to walk that change back to fix this, as it
> also fixed plenty of other issues with channel usability and important
> edge-cases.

What are anchor outputs used for other than increasing fees?

Because if we've pre-signed the full fee range, there is simply no need for
anchor outputs. Under any circumstance we can broadcast a transaction with a
sufficiently high fee to get mined.

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