DemocracyEarth / paper

On self sovereign human identity.
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Use of side channels #326

Open jamesray1 opened 6 years ago

jamesray1 commented 6 years ago

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 commented 6 years ago

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