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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 19 Oct 2024 \ parent \ on: Questions about Nov 5th: How does the new format work? AskSN
Even if you have 1 sat HTLCs that doesn't mean is not dust.
Only that is not financially worth it to steal it with a force close channel.
Users think that LN is something magic that works out of any chain, but in fact all LN payments are onchain transactions, only that are not broadcast yet.
I could easily have a dust attack on your node attached to SN account, sending hundreds of 1 sat zaps until your node will collapse with so many pending HTLCs of 1 sat.
Then I force close the channel and your node is fucked. yes that could cost me a lot, but is doable.
That's why is kind of stupid to zap 1 sat or even under dust limit in a p2p mode.
This is really interesting.
There's a lot to unpack here. I have never 'attached my wallet' to Stacker News. Instead I use an LN address.
Would this attack still work? If not... OK. However what about for all the other Stackers? How do we mitigate this attack? Mitigate it in the wild?
Also it seems you are implying it would be expensive both for 'the attacker' and the one 'being attacked'. Do I have that right?
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Yes for such thing you need to allocate resource and the result is just to fuck up the peer victim node.
But there are enough crazy people around capable to do such thing.
Instead I use an LN address.
And where is going that LN address? Not to a LN node? Is it your node or somebody else's node?
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I'm not sure I understand. There are a lot of big public nodes out there. For example run by exchanges (Kraken, Coinbase, Acinq etc)
Someone can attack their node by sending them 1 sat over and over and over then force-closing?
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