📅 Original date posted:2018-01-16
📝 Original message:
Benjamin Mord <ben at mord.io> writes:
> [..]
> why not allow negative fees to incent unwinding, in scenarios where nodes
> consider that cheaper than on-chain rebalancing?
This was brought up before here [1]:
Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> writes:
>> Edward Marynarz <edziumarynarz at gmail.com> writes:
>> Another trivial question: can the fee be negative? It might help with some
>> channel rebalancing.
>In my original implementation, they could be. However, that turns out
>to be a very strange idea, and complicates routing.
[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2017-December/000827.html
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