[Lightning-dev] Proposal for Advertising Channel Liquidity

Anthony Towns aj at erisian.com.au
Thu Nov 8 22:39:54 UTC 2018


On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:32:01PM +1030, Olaoluwa Osuntokun wrote:
> > A node, via their node_announcement,
> Most implementations today will ignore node announcements from nodes that
> don't have any channels, in order to maintain the smallest routing set
> possible (no zombies, etc). It seems for this to work, we would need to undo
> this at a global scale to ensure these announcements propagate?

Having incoming capacity from a random node with no other channels doesn't
seem useful though? (It's not useful for nodes that don't have incoming
capacity of their own, either)

Cheers,
aj



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