Questions tagged [ln-gossip]
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How to get a full view of the lightning network with c-lightning?
As I understand lightning a node should in principle have a complete view of the lightning network graph (i.e., all nodes and channels). However, I also understand that for practical reasons the view ...
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lightning-cli listnodes is empty. Am I missing something?
I want the result of listnodes like the following. How can I do that?
{ "nodes" :
[
{ "nodeid" : "028e5a8e86540f703e1f58880d35d1e318a54c27d84ec1edbcde04a78ed4469a1e", "alias" : "???? ...
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Why did the lightning network implement a gossip protocol?
As pointed out by many lightning developers in the past (e.g. Rusty's 1 million channel challenge) the gossip protocol is quite noisy and a part of the BOLTs causing many engineering challenges.
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Can the lightning network be subject to DoS attacks due to message flooding?
In the current implementations of the Lightning network protocol (c-lightning, eclair and lnd), is there any check that stops spamming/flooding of channel_announcement, mode_announcement or ...
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Do the channel balances get publicly announced in real-time on Lightning Network?
In Lightning Network, is the balance publicly announced in real-time?
On the one hand, it should be public as it is crucial to the routing mechanism.
But, in case that the balance might reveal some ...
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What is the purpose of the announcement_signatures message as specified by the Lightning Network RFC?
Isn't the channel_announcement message enough for channel advertisement? Why is the announcement_signatures message required?
Reference BOLT #7
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