From thomas.huet at acinq.fr Fri Mar 3 16:50:46 2023 From: thomas.huet at acinq.fr (Thomas HUET) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:50:46 +0100 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Local Reputation to Mitigate Slow Jamming In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: By giving a high confidence to HTLCs you increase the chance that they are relayed which should be your goal. Having a high reputation is not a goal in itself, it's just a way to make your HTLCs more likely to be relayed. If you always report confidence 0, then yes you will have a reputation of 1 but your HTLCs will still be rejected at the first sign of congestion. Le ven. 3 mars 2023 ? 17:14, Clara Shikhelman a ?crit : > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for the example. > > - If c < p then yes it gives it a higher reputation but the reputation is >> capped at 1 anyway, so by underestimating the confidence the node doesn't >> gain anything. >> > Is there anything to gain from giving high confidence? By doing this, you > risk lowering your reputation, and it's not clear what you gain. > Could it be that the best selfish strategy is to report confidence 0 (that > maps to reputation 1) all the time? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: