50 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 14 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Mutiny Wallet forced closed, on-chain balance zero bitcoin
Also, LN wallets will have to handle hodl invoices better now, and that is good too.
Sorry for my ignorance, but I thought hodl invoices are indistinguishable to wallets? To them it just looks like the payment is still on route? Which is kind of a feature and not a bug?
So how could a wallet handle this case better if this case is not even reliably detectable?
On the other hand, iirc, Phoenix was able to tell that my payment is on hold when I used it to pay a bond on RoboSats 🤔
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 14 Nov 2023
Only way to detect it is having a list of nodes that create them. Ideally there should be a flag in the invoice saying that so wallets can act differently
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 14 Nov 2023
So how could a wallet handle this case better if this case is not even reliably detectable?
The main way has been by manually banning payments to LN nodes that are known for hodl invoices.
In the future, there will probably be more defenses implemented, like better ways to cancel a pending payment, charges for holding up HTLCs, etc.
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