Gossip Todo

[cdecker]

This is a tracking issue for the gossip overhaul for the new architecture.

• Implement staggered broadcast for peers that are owned by gossipd
• Forward gossip messages to owner if gossipd is not the owner
• Create announcements for newly created channels
• Implement the getnodes JSON-RPC call
• Implement the getroute JSON-RPC call
• Implement the getchannels JSON-RPC call
• Add a new callback to wait for 6 confirmations before sending announcement_signatures
• Generate valid signatures for the announcements using the HSM Use HSM to compute signatures for channel_announcement and channel_update messages #138

Depending on the decision on #126, we also need to

• Increase size of internal messages from u16 to u32 (might need some additional refactoring since currently we simply reuse the external wire format).