"their tech is solid"

and out of date

just read a good paper on bloom filter based encryption and circa 2018 already there was a proposal for a one-shot protocol for circuit establishment via tor

afaik not reached us plebs

it's a performance improvement, sure, but i was already jaded on the tor project in 2007 for the way they regarded ideas about using a monetary incentive to improve the size of the network

today been doing a lot of research into it and i get it now that with old techniques they literally are limited in network node count

could be fixed with multiple networks with other directories running, at minimum

circuit establishment speed can clearly be dramatically increased to one outbound message now, where it used to be a 6 cycle to and fro through the new channel, at minimum

i had been developing an idea based on HORNET - the actual original inspiration for LN, btw, client side onion relaying - but the problem with the design is it's not spam resistant

i pretty much guarantee that next year lightning is gonna be creaking because of this vulnerability

not sure what to say other than these many points...

gonna be following up with a lot more research in this holiday week and maybe i'll manage to figure out a possible path to agoric, path-blinded relay routing

definitely feels like a dawning moment right now