CD79: lightning development, bugs, and the path forward
Citadel Dispatch
Is There a Bug on Lightning?
Matt: This is not our first bug on lightning, right? There's one in 2019. And then Antoine Ríard and Gled also found a dust one last year that I guess they responsibly disclosed. They reached out to everyone they emailed, you know, I guess all of the, I don't know who always on the email list, but you know,. The issue was that because lightning has some concept of dust outputs, if an HTLC, the value of the HTLC is dust below some threshold, then it just gets burned to feeds. Unlike the kind of on-chain stuff that we've been talking about, there's no way to go like exploit the issue to
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