We have supported sending to any witness version since Electrum 3.0, using
addresses as specified in BIP-0173 (bech32 encoding).
BIP-0350 makes a breaking change in address encoding, and recommends using
(and using only) a new encoding (bech32m) for sending to witness version 1
and later. The address encoding for currently in use witness v0 addresses
remains the same, as in BIP-0173; following the BIP-0350 spec.
closes https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/6949
related:
cd3885c0fb/bip-0350.mediawikihttps://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20861
- 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
Previously we failed to decode min_final_cltv_expiry properly if the highest bit was 1:
in practice, we could not pay invoices that had a value in [16-31] or [512-1023].
Many invoices use a value around 144, so this was simply unnoticed.
also update default value to follow BOLT change:
c5693d336d
Internally, we've been using an expiration of 0 to mean "never expires".
For LN invoices, BOLT-11 does not specify what an expiration of 0 means.
Other clients seem to treat it as "0 seconds" (i.e. already expired).
This means there is no way to create a BOLT-11 invoice that "never" expires.
For LN invoices,
- we now treat an expiration of 0, , as "0 seconds",
- when creating an invoice, if the user selected never, we will put 100 years as expiration
ThomasV
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