Sorry here's the link to get a connection code: https://community.sphinx.chat/bounties

Got it. So it wouldn't be an onchain txn for the lightning payment. Is that right?

This wouldn't be a DDOS attack. Everyone else's vtxo is locked into the sharedUTXO which is being paid to the ASP until the 4 week timeout.

When the remaining members of the shared UTXO come back online at the 4 week mark, the ASP pushes them into the next coinjoin round to create another sharedUTXO with other people who are entering in that round.

Decentralization is just a tool for censorship-resistance and self-custody. Decentralization is not the end all and be all of all things.

Both traits are preserved through ARK, so IMO it's not a big concern.

It could potentially affect the CJ round. But outside of that, no.

How do you imagine ARK being used? For daily payments? Or more of a savings account?

Do you see any potential solutions to addressing the liquidity requirements that doesn't include borrowing bitcoin from lenders and raising ASP fees? Something in the design we can do to potentially make available bitcoin from ARK depositors that the ASP could immediately use to fund transfers?

What kinda of soft forks do we need to enable a non-interactive ARK?