A minimal payment channel implementation for chunk retrieval #15
Description
Goal: show that payment channels are a scalable solution for chunk payments.
A first version of payment channels has been added in #9. It implements a design based on Nitro state channels. It shows the viability of using payment channels, but it doesn't show that payment channels can be opened and closed fast enough to use for bandwidth payments.
We'd like to add a scaling solution for this. So far we've identified two options during our research:
- use Nitro virtual channels as per the draft RFC, or
- use an async blockchain to open and close channels.
Depending on the outcome of the research in codex-storage/codex-research#28 and codex-storage/codex-research#33 we'll make a choice and implement it here.