From jb55 at jb55.com  Tue Jan 16 19:58:11 2018
From: jb55 at jb55.com (William Casarin)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:58:11 -0800
Subject: [Lightning-dev] negative fees for HTLC relay
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Benjamin Mord <ben at mord.io> writes:
> [..]
> why not allow negative fees to incent unwinding, in scenarios where nodes
> consider that cheaper than on-chain rebalancing?

This was brought up before here [1]:

Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> writes:
>> Edward Marynarz <edziumarynarz at gmail.com> writes:
>> Another trivial question: can the fee be negative? It might help with some
>> channel rebalancing.

>In my original implementation, they could be.  However, that turns out
>to be a very strange idea, and complicates routing.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2017-December/000827.html

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