- could Lightning decentralisation be improved by giving node operators a "do not route" config option?
- could the obverse be achieved by allowing clients to preferentially route through nodes with some definition of "fewer" channels?
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I would think that doing either of these could cause problems. It's supposed to be an "open" system.
If you start to allow this, then some big players can come in and start to determine where they want their
BTC to go.
If Alice does not want to route to Bob, Chris or Dave but Carlton is
ONLY routing to Bob, Chris and Dave. You never get
BTC from Alice.
Working on no sleep, so I might be missing something but at 1st glance allowing what you said could cause that.
Yes it's a edge case, but if your node now has to route around this because you both DO talk to Steve, the programming logic just gets that much more complicated.
-Dave