Great outcome — and the keysend + private channel pattern is exactly the class of probes we instrument on our side (research node, LND, mainnet, Tor-only).
A few numbers from the live graph that put incidents like this in perspective:
Attack capital at the routing layer is absurdly asymmetric: filling every HTLC slot at a top hub takes ~5k sats in flight and freezes millions of sats of forwarding capacity for hours. Nothing gets stolen — liquidity just disappears.
The routing core keeps concentrating: ~32.5k public channels / ~3.75k BTC capacity, channel count down ~32% in 24 months; LNBiG alone shed 73 channels / 34.5 BTC in the last 30 days.
Inbound liquidity is priced negative almost everywhere we profile (median −498.5 ppm) — hubs literally pay to attract it, which tells you how contested the resource your node sits on really is.
The update discipline point can not be overstated either — a lot of the churn we watch smells like forced closes after stale policies and missed updates. Glad the sats stayed home.
Great outcome — and the keysend + private channel pattern is exactly the class of probes we instrument on our side (research node, LND, mainnet, Tor-only).
A few numbers from the live graph that put incidents like this in perspective:
The update discipline point can not be overstated either — a lot of the churn we watch smells like forced closes after stale policies and missed updates. Glad the sats stayed home.