Flag for manually specifying remote delay when opening channels

[halseth]

As discussed in #788, the only way to manually set the remote CSV delay for channels is by using the --defaultremotedelay flag at startup, which will be applied to all channels opened from that point on. In certain cases it is needed to manually specify this delay, in order to create channels compatible with less conservative implementations than lnd. In particular, c-lightning tolerates a delay of maximum 3 days, while lnd scales all the way up to 2 weeks for large channels.

While we want the defaults to be as safe as possible, it makes sense to allow the user to specify a shorter delay on a per channel basis, in the case she wants to open a channel with a node not supporting long delays. We should therefore add a flag to openchannel that let's the user specify this, the default still being scaling linearly with channel size.

After such a flag is added, I think the --defaultremotedelay startup option can be made applicable only to incoming channels, as you can emulate it for outgoing channels with the new flag to openchannel (if this simplifies the code in anyway).

[halseth]

Related: #800

[vctt94]

Can I give this issue a try?

[halseth]

@vctt94 Hi, this is already fixed by #840, but I would suggest trying to tackle (parts of) #800, it is very similar :)

[vctt94]

Hey @halseth , thanks for letting me know and suggesting me #800 , I will look into it :)