[Lightning-dev] Base AMP

Christian Decker decker.christian at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 11:40:00 UTC 2018


Which brings us back to the initial proposal that just signals the
awareness of a temporary underpayment with the single "more is coming"-bit.

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:49 PM Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

> ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com> writes:
> > But what if 2 of those paths fail?
> > It would be better to merge them into a single payment along the
> expensive 4th path.
> > However, the remaining succeeding path has already given `numpaths`=3.
> >
> > Using `numpaths` overcommits to what you will do in the future, and is
> unnecessary anyway.
> > The payee is interested in the total value, not the details of the split.
>
> Excellent point.
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
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