From clara.shikhelman at gmail.com Fri Mar 3 18:45:17 2023 From: clara.shikhelman at gmail.com (Clara Shikhelman) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 13:45:17 -0500 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Local Reputation to Mitigate Slow Jamming In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Could you explain the benefits of continuous solutions over binary? This is something we should definitely understand before going in a more complicated direction. Also, I'm still not sure that the rational behaviour is to report *c* truthfully. On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 11:51?AM Thomas HUET wrote: > 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: