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Use of side channels

Open jamesray1 opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

I want to warn that use of side channels like Lightning and Raiden are not as secure as using Ethereum. If there is any attack you could all of the transaction amount. If you are going to use it, I'd recommend using some kind of insurance e.g. as below:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/955487619139416064

jamesray1 avatar Feb 09 '18 04:02 jamesray1

https://medium.com/@jamesray_56543/de-are-also-looking-to-do-off-chain-computation-although-albeit-it-is-less-secure-as-i-have-raised-afb2e1772801?source=quoteResponses---------0

jamesray1 avatar Feb 12 '18 07:02 jamesray1