Sure. And it's only a matter of time until Satoshi's stack gets spent too
If you are inexperienced enough to create a zombie channel in the first place, it is unlikely you also have a watchtower that will rescue your funds. Every day that a zombie remains a zombie is more evidence that it is likely burned.
(i) The first is a zombie attack, where a set of k nodes become unresponsive with the goal of locking the funds of many channels for a period of time longer than what the LN protocol dictates.
(ii) The second is a mass double-spend attack, where a set of k nodes attempt to steal funds by submitting many closing transactions that settle channels using expired protocol states; this causes many honest nodes to have to quickly respond by submitting invalidating transactions.
The same old tired FUD. Boring.
There are currently over 200k known zombie channels
Meanwhile, there is only about 40k active/open channels
LN has successfully reduced the BTC supply by giving noobs a new way to burn their sats.
https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/zombie-lightning-channels/
Sure. And it's only a matter of time until Satoshi's stack gets spent too
If you are inexperienced enough to create a zombie channel in the first place, it is unlikely you also have a watchtower that will rescue your funds. Every day that a zombie remains a zombie is more evidence that it is likely burned.
TIL
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$ lncli getnetworkinfo { [other cool facts] "num_zombie_chans": "227742" }Ouch.
Know the capacity?
Only two types of attacks.
⚡️ Lightning Network is the best way.