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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?
Comment by MrRGnome at 12/01/2018 at 21:15 UTC
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Your channels are as available as you make them. I'm not sure how many wallets support concepts like limiting by IP or reserving percentages of channel space or increasing transaction fees as channels are consumed - but the mechanisms are certainly available.
Comment by geezas at 13/01/2018 at 05:49 UTC
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Each node sets a minimum flat fee plus a percentage fee. If your minimum fee is not negligible, then the spammer would quickly lose their money to fees, in which case I would consider this a donation rather than spam. Sure it's a showoff-ish make-it-rain type of donation (i.e. throwing many bills one by one as opposed to just handing the whole wad in one go) but whatever, I'd take it.