Merge pull request #2605 from wpaulino/anchors-monitor-track-to-remote-script

[rust-lightning] / lightning / src / chain / chaininterface.rs

diff --git a/lightning/src/chain/chaininterface.rs b/lightning/src/chain/chaininterface.rs
index 6073ed61aaf0cc88beea1c899b687fbb407fbc93..913fa007d378e91ba5666e3d34ae11c15010ce13 100644 (file)
--- a/lightning/src/chain/chaininterface.rs
+++ b/lightning/src/chain/chaininterface.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ pub enum ConfirmationTarget {
 /// A trait which should be implemented to provide feerate information on a number of time
 /// horizons.
 ///
+/// If access to a local mempool is not feasible, feerate estimates should be fetched from a set of
+/// third-parties hosting them. Note that this enables them to affect the propagation of your
+/// pre-signed transactions at any time and therefore endangers the safety of channels funds. It
+/// should be considered carefully as a deployment.
+///
 /// Note that all of the functions implemented here *must* be reentrant-safe (obviously - they're
 /// called from inside the library in response to chain events, P2P events, or timer events).
 pub trait FeeEstimator {