Further research ideas

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Potential directions for exploration of adjacent topics:

• implement reputation strategies, simulate attacks in the presence of reputation scores
• explore error attribution ideas (somewhat related to reputation)
• define attack success metrics (locked-up channels, routes, nodes, decreased success rates of honest payments, ...)
• measure attacker's costs (locked-up capital, unconditional fees)
• calculate attack effectiveness (unit of attack success per unit of cost)
• explore more broad fee strategies (inbound fees, bidirectional fees, etc - see overview)
• explore fee amount calculation based on factual payment resolution time (what additional trust assumptions does it entail? - see Jamming book
• investigate the applicability of unconditional fees to incentivizing watchtowers (such as The eye of Satoshi)
• measure the effects on balance probing attacks

See also: the "Future work" section of the paper.