From cjp at ultimatestunts.nl  Wed Jul 15 20:05:44 2015
From: cjp at ultimatestunts.nl (CJP)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:05:44 +0200
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Routing on the lightning network?
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> > You could even offer negative fees for transactions that bring a channel
> > back to equilibrium. There could be a market for people making money
> > from bringing other peoples' channels back to equilibrium. This would
> > require either to step away from "net neutrality" (so, not the same fee
> > for every route / destination), or it would require some form of source
> > routing and explicitly setting the fees of intermediate nodes.
> 
> Yes, this was suggested to me by Joseph Poon in a face-to-face
> conversation we had in San Francisco.  It kind of blew my mind,
> actually.  The fact that you discovered it too provides fairly
> convincing proof that you're smarter than me :)

Maybe :), but I'm not sure I invented it myself. I had a talk about
Amiko Pay at the Bitcoinference in Amsterdam, and someone in the
audience actually came up with this idea. I vaguely remember I was
already playing with the idea at that time, but I'm not really sure.

CJP