From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Wed Sep  2 05:42:52 2015
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:12:52 +0930
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Loop attack with onion routing..
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Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au> writes:
> In that case $1 uBTC is $4.80, and 1 satoshi is about 5c; so you couldn't
> charge a fee less than 1% for a $5 coffee, and couldn't spend less than 5c
> when doing microtransactions.

I was momentarily tempted to make HTLCs in thousandths of satoshi.
Obviously, you'd have some agreed rounding for the on-chain versions.

This has the advantage that you can only have 0.042 BTC (~$10) per HTLC.

Cheers,
Rusty.