2019-03-06 18:55:28
Wohoo, a few weeks after closing the channels on my ln node I have almost all of my funds back

Fireduck
2019-03-06 18:55:37
some had a really long timeout, like 1440 blocks

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:01:45
It really does seem far away from mainstream adoption.

Tilian
2019-03-06 19:01:46
But yay.

Tilian
2019-03-06 19:02:12
yeah, I gave it a solid try to learn more about it

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:02:29
if I try to get back in my next goal will be to DoS the channels

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:03:22
When you route a payment, you probably effectively need a lock on all of the channels involved for the payment to succeed. This isn't super fast so there is probably a max of 1 or 2 tps per channel.

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:03:47
By carefully placing my nodes and routing payments over hot value channels I should be able to effectively lock out payments by others

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:04:01
but that is just my hypothesis

Fireduck
2019-03-06 19:07:10
I see no reason why that wouldn't work. I've read some stuff about people DoSing their counterparty to broadcast outdated commitment transactions.

Tilian
2019-03-06 19:07:30
Slightly more serious because you could steal funds that way, although unlikely the counterparty wouldn't notice because you'd have to wait for the lock.

Tilian
2019-03-06 19:07:46
Do let us know how that goes if you ever try it!

Tilian
2019-03-06 19:08:11
sure thing

Fireduck
2019-03-06 21:05:59
I wonder if AMD has less of these specter/rowhammer sorts of things

Fireduck
2019-03-06 21:06:04
or if they are just not the first target

Fireduck
2019-03-06 21:31:13
Rowhammer really is a DRAM issue, and Spectre works equally well on AMD (although they should do branch prediction a bit differently).

Tilian
2019-03-06 21:31:24
But Intel is worse in terms of "shady management engine".

Tilian
2019-03-06 21:31:45
a.k.a. Minix in Ring -3 that you can't turn off

Tilian
2019-03-06 21:31:47
you just solved our team name problem at work

Fireduck
2019-03-06 21:31:59
"Shady Management Engine"

Fireduck
2019-03-06 21:32:26
haha, I could find some places to use that in my workplace as well

Tilian