<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1tcwr7j30p5q4sypnsw4arca9s2433s7wdcpt2z2sk7pkqfsntjds0pu5xp</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1tcwr7j30p5q4sypnsw4arca9s2433s7wdcpt2z2sk7pkqfsntjds0pu5xp</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2023-03-03&#xA;🗒️ Summary of this message: Continuous solutions allow for more precise blocking of attackers and low-reputation nodes. Reporting c truthfully is important to maintain reputation.&#xA;📝 Original message:&#xA;The benefit is that you can be more precise when blocking. With a binary&#xA;solution a single attacker can easily fill your quota of low-confidence&#xA;HTLCs and then all low-reputation nodes are blocked. But not all of them&#xA;are attackers, some of them just don&#39;t send you enough traffic to get a&#xA;high reputation for instance and you&#39;re going to block them too. With a&#xA;continuous solution you can differentiate between an active attacker and&#xA;someone who just sends to nodes with poor connectivity and only block the&#xA;first.&#xA;&#xA;For reporting c truthfully, if you report it too high you will be penalized&#xA;by having your reputation lowered, if you report it too low you will&#xA;penalize your HTLCs and still get the same reputation as if you had&#xA;reported it truthfully.&#xA;&#xA;Le ven. 3 mars 2023 à 19:45, Clara Shikhelman &lt;clara.shikhelman at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;a écrit :&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Could you explain the benefits of continuous solutions over binary? This&#xA;&gt; is something we should definitely understand before going in a more&#xA;&gt; complicated direction.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; Also, I&#39;m still not sure that the rational behaviour is to report *c*&#xA;&gt; truthfully.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 11:51 AM Thomas HUET &lt;thomas.huet at acinq.fr&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; By giving a high confidence to HTLCs you increase the chance that they&#xA;&gt;&gt; are relayed which should be your goal. Having a high reputation is not a&#xA;&gt;&gt; goal in itself, it&#39;s just a way to make your HTLCs more likely to be&#xA;&gt;&gt; relayed. If you always report confidence 0, then yes you will have a&#xA;&gt;&gt; reputation of 1 but your HTLCs will still be rejected at the first sign of&#xA;&gt;&gt; congestion.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; Le ven. 3 mars 2023 à 17:14, Clara Shikhelman &lt;clara.shikhelman at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt; a écrit :&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Hi Thomas,&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Thanks for the example.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; - If c &lt; p then yes it gives it a higher reputation but the reputation&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; is capped at 1 anyway, so by underestimating the confidence the node&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; doesn&#39;t gain anything.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Is there anything to gain from giving high confidence? By doing this,&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; you risk lowering your reputation, and it&#39;s not clear what you gain.&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; Could it be that the best selfish strategy is to report confidence 0&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt; (that maps to reputation 1) all the time?&#xA;&gt;&gt;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&gt;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/attachments/20230303/d15bb113/attachment-0001.html&gt;</html></oembed>