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Use final spec values for splicing #2887

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@t-bast t-bast commented Jul 23, 2024

We replace our experimental version of splice_init, splice_ack and splice_locked by their official version (see lightning/bolts#1160). If our peer is using the experimental feature bit, we convert our outgoing messages to use the experimental encoding and incoming messages to the official messages.

We also change the TLV fields added to tx_add_input, tx_signatures and splice_locked to match the spec version. We always write both the official and experimental TLV to updated nodes (because the experimental one is odd and will be ignored) but we drop the official TLV if our peer is using the experimental feature, because it won't understand the even TLV field.

This guarantees backwards-compatibility with peers who only support the experimental feature.

We also implement RBF support for splice transactions in the last commit: that's the part of this PR that really needs a thorough review. I can probably port some parts of this commit to master as preparatory steps if that makes it easier to review.

@ddustin you should be able to start cross-compat tests based on this branch. Note that we currently only support unannounced channels (we haven't implemented the gossip part yet).

Fixes #2781

We replace our experimental version of `splice_init`, `splice_ack` and
`splice_locked` by their official version. If our peer is using the
experimental feature bit, we convert our outgoing messages to use the
experimental encoding and incoming messages to the official messages.

We also change the TLV fields added to `tx_add_input`, `tx_signatures`
and `splice_locked` to match the spec version. We always write both the
official and experimental TLV to updated nodes (because the experimental
one is odd and will be ignored) but we drop the official TLV if our
peer is using the experimental feature, because it won't understand the
even TLV field.

This guarantees backwards-compatibility with peers who only support the
experimental feature.
We initially supported splicing with a poor man's quiescence, where we
allowed splice messages if the commitments were already quiescent.

We've shipped support for quiescence since then, which means that new
even nodes relying on experimental splicing should support quiescence.
We can thus remove support for the non-quiescent version.
If the latest splice transaction doesn't confirm, we allow exchanging
`tx_init_rbf` and `tx_ack_rbf` to create another splice transaction to
replace it. We use the same funding contribution as the previous splice.

We disallow creating another splice transaction using `splice_init` if
we have several RBF attempts for the latest splice: we cannot know which
one of them will confirm and should be spent by the new splice.
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remyers commented Aug 13, 2024

This is an observation that occurred to me while reviewing this PR that might be relevant for a future PR ..

There will be times when using CMD_BUMP_FUNDING_FEE instead of CMD_SPLICE would cost less on-chain and confirm faster if you want to perform an additional splice while a pending splice is unconfirmed. The total cost to create a new funding transaction with CMD_SPLICE will often be higher than making the same changes with CMD_BUMP_FUNDING_FEE at a slightly higher fee rate. If you are blocked from making a new splice because a pending splice has been fee bumped, you could also make a new fee bump to splice in/out value rather than waiting for the previously rbf'd splice to confirm.

This seems to be technically possible in the protocol because CMD_BUMP_FUNDING_FEE uses the interactive tx protocol and can change the funding contribution with the funding_output_contribution TLV. Figuring out if a splice or rbf-splice is cheaper will also need to consider the additional fees paid to bump our counter party's inputs and outputs.

Perhaps the biggest downside I can see (beside complexity) is that if your pending splice or rbf confirms before a rbf-splice, then you would need to renegotiate it as a new splice.

Am I missing something here wrt fee savings? Do you think it would be worth considering this situation now rather than later?

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t-bast commented Aug 13, 2024

Perhaps the biggest downside I can see (beside complexity) is that if your pending splice or rbf confirms before a rbf-splice, then you would need to renegotiate it as a new splice.

Yes, the main reason we're not providing this yet (even though this is in theory possible) is to manage complexity. It can get really complex very quickly once you start going down that road, because if each splice "part" maps to a specific action (e.g. an on-the-fly funding), it can be a huge mess to reconcile which parts where actually done and which parts need to be replayed if a previous RBF attempt confirms.

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Looks good - the refactor for RBF makes it easier to read/understand.

I found a few nits but main issues to take a look at are related to adding logic to reject an TxInitRbf or SpliceInit when the parent splice is unconfirmed.

When 0-conf isn't used, we reject `splice_init` while the previous
splice transaction hasn't confirmed. Our peer should either use RBF
instead of creating a new splice, or they should wait for our node
to receive the block that confirmed the previous transaction. This
protects against chains of unconfirmed transactions.
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Changes to tests to disallow sequences of unconfirmed splices looks good. I only had a few minor nits/questions.

watchConfirmedCommit2.replyTo ! WatchTxConfirmedTriggered(BlockHeight(400000), 42, commitTx2)
// claim-main-delayed tx confirms
watchConfirmedClaimMainDelayed2.replyTo ! WatchTxConfirmedTriggered(BlockHeight(400000), 42, claimMainDelayed2)
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nit: is it important to pass WatchTxConfirmedTriggered to watchConfirmedCommit2.replyTo instead of just passing to alice as you do elsewhere?

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No, it was really useless, I'd rather keep it simple and easier to read by referring to alice and bob everywhere.

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