Lessons from the workshop

[D4nte]

Lessons from the workshop:

• It works!
• comit-i is easy to use
• It is hard to create a dev Ethereum network with parity
• It is easy to create a regtest Bitcoin network with bitcoind
• bitcoind commandline is not that user friendly but ok
  • Except when the amount in comit-i is satoshi and bitcoind wants bitcoins: see Display main asset unit in UI comit-network/comit-i#95
• Links works but people are surprised that other can change the rates in link
  • Follow-up on link-id discussion so that for a given link-id bobtimus/comit-i reject a swap if details are different?
• It gets confusing when there is a lot of swap
  • To know what swap is from whom: does it matter?
  • To know what swap is buy/sell: see Clearer sell/buy comit-network/comit-i#97
• Rust developers may not have nightly. see Compile on stable Rust! comit-network/comit-rs#1047
• Despite node setup, Rust compilation was the most challenging
• People prefer BTC/Ether to Sat/Wei: see Display main asset unit in UI comit-network/comit-i#95
• Link is too long
• Alpha/Beta wording is confusing, especially when accepting/declining a swap. Is Clearer sell/buy comit-network/comit-i#97 enough?
• Fund/Refund/Redeem terms are confusing, proposed terms are Send/Cancel/Receive
• People loved hands on format -> Ok refund makes sense. but Lock makes more sense than Fund
• remove web+comit from link
• Make it a game/competition next time
• Do a wrap-up with open questions next time
• Implement auto-refresh or websocket

[da-kami]

Fund/Refund/Redeem terms are confusing, proposed terms are Send/Cancel/Receive
People loved hands on format -> Ok refund makes sense. but Lock makes more sense than Fund

my thoughts:

Fund -> Send 😒 - Send is too general and already used to send the swap request
Fund -> Fund 😀 - I like Fund
Fund -> Lock 😐 - I find Fund better, but am OK with Lock
Fund -> Lock Funds 😀
Refund -> Chancel 😒 - too general
Refund -> Revert 😐- would be OK for me
Redeem -> Receive 😀 - I like that, am not exactly happy with Redeem

Note:
in the RFCs that define the implementation (e.g. https://github.com/comit-network/RFCs/blob/master/RFC-005-SWAP-Basic-Bitcoin.md) we actually call the Fund stage Deployment.

[thomaseizinger]

I could live with Lock Funds :)

Suggestions for Redeem (possible concatenated with Funds, same as for Lock Funds):

• Withdraw
• Claim
• Extract
• Unlock
• Take

Since the name of the action is returned by the comit node, we could even make the action name be specific to the asset:

For Alpha:

1. Fund -> Lock Bitcoin
2. Redeem -> Take Ether
3. Refund -> Take Bitcoin back