- trampoline is enabled by default in config, to prevent download of `gossip_db`.
(if disabled, `gossip_db` will be downloaded, regardless of the existence of channels)
- if trampoline is enabled:
- the wallet can only open channels with trampoline nodes
- already-existing channels with non-trampoline nodes are frozen for sending.
- there are two types of trampoline payments: legacy and end-to-end (e2e).
- we decide to perform legacy or e2e based on the invoice:
- we use trampoline_routing_opt in features to detect Eclair and Phoenix invoices
- we use trampoline_routing_hints to detect Electrum invoices
- when trying a legacy payment, we add a second trampoline to the path to preserve privacy.
(we fall back to a single trampoline if the payment fails for all trampolines)
- the trampoline list is hardcoded, it will remain so until `trampoline_routing_opt` feature flag is in INIT.
- there are currently only two nodes in the hardcoded list, it would be nice to have more.
- similar to Phoenix, we find the fee/cltv by trial-and-error.
- if there is a second trampoline in the path, we use the same fee for both.
- the final spec should add fee info in error messages, so we will be able to fine-tune fees
Old estimate was heavily biased towards simply minimising CLTV sum.
(fees had a too low weight; typically they were ~noise)
Now also take payment_amount into account.
Previously we would put fake chan announcement and fake outgoing chan upd
for own channels into db (to make path finding work). See Peer.add_own_channel().
Now, instead of above, we pass a "my_channels" param to the relevant ChannelDB methods.
- use gossip_queries_req instead of initial_routing_sync
- add connected nodes to recent peers only after successful init
- derive timestamp used with gossip_timestamp_filter from channel_db
- fix query_short_channel_ids:
1. channel IDs must be sorted with zlib
2. limit request to 100
3. do not abuse this to request node_announcements; it is fine not to have all nodes.
- fix get_recent_peers:
1. do not set last_connected_date to 'now' if we never connected a node
2. sql query was misconstructed and was returning only one peer
- populate FALLBACK_NODE_LIST_MAINNET with nodes that have the requested flags
ThomasV
SomberNight