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How does the Lightning Network stop flooding nodes (DDoS) with micro transactions? Is this even an issue?
Hash Time Locked Contracts are traded off chain between two parties without a global broadcast mechanism. The only time the HTLCs might need to be broadcast is on the blockchain to prevent fraud. Otherwise HTLCs are unicast, reducing the number of transactions any node sees to just those moving through its channels.
Comment by codedaway at 12/01/2018 at 21:03 UTC
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Thank you for this explanation, I think the question was more towards how to stop someone from sending hundreds of millions of satoshis at once through your node to themselves causing stress on your node. Does it even cause stress? Does the fee structure of LN nodes prevent this spam?