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This commit adds a 32-byte `chain_hash` value to both the
`channel_update` and `channel_announcement` messages. The rationale for
this change is that this value is already present within the
`open_channel` for identifying _which_ chain to open the channel
within. As is now, if a pair of peers had channels open on two chains
which somehow are encoded using the same `short_channel_id`, then the
announcements would be ambitious. We resolve this by explicitly
including the `chain_hash` is all channel related announcement
messages.

Note that with this change, we now require 40-bytes to uniquely
identify a channel globally.

Additionally, this modification of the channel announcement messages
allows peers to start building up a heterogenous network graph.
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* [`64`:`bitcoin_signature_2`]
* [`2`:`len`]
* [`len`:`features`]
* [`32`:`chain_hash`]
* [`8`:`short_channel_id`]
* [`33`:`node_id_1`]
* [`33`:`node_id_2`]
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### Requirements

The creating node MUST set `chain_hash` to the 32-byte hash that uniquely
identifies the chain the channel was opened within. For the Bitcoin
blockchain, the `chain_hash` value MUST be (encoded in hex):
`000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f`.

The creating node MUST set `short_channel_id` to refer to the confirmed
funding transaction as specified in [BOLT #2](02-peer-protocol.md#the-funding_locked-message). The corresponding output MUST be a
P2WSH as described in [BOLT #3](03-transactions.md#funding-transaction-output).
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -118,6 +124,9 @@ correspond to a P2WSH using `bitcoin_key_1` and `bitcoin_key_2` as
specified in [BOLT #3](03-transactions.md#funding-transaction-output).
The receiving node MUST ignore the message if this output is spent.

The receiving node MUST ignore the message if the specified `chain_hash`
is unknown to the receiver.

Otherwise, the receiving node SHOULD fail the connection if
`bitcoin_signature_1`, `bitcoin_signature_2`, `node_signature_1` or
`node_signature_2` are invalid or not correct.
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1. type: 258 (`channel_update`)
2. data:
* [`64`:`signature`]
* [`32`:`chain_hash`]
* [`8`:`short_channel_id`]
* [`4`:`timestamp`]
* [`2`:`flags`]
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The creating node MUST set `signature` to the signature of the
double-SHA256 of the entire remaining packet after `signature` using its own `node_id`.

For the Bitcoin blockchain, the `chain_hash` value MUST be (encoded in
hex): `000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f`.
The creating node MUST set `chain_hash` and `short_channel_id` to match the
32-byte hash and 8-byte channel ID that uniquely identifies the channel within
the `channel_announcement` message.

The creating node MUST set `short_channel_id` to match those in the already-sent `channel_announcement` message, and MUST set the `direction` bit of `flags` to 0 if the creating node is `node_id_1` in that message, otherwise 1.
Bits which are not assigned a meaning must be set to 0.

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message following the `signature` field (including unknown fields
following `fee_proportional_millionths`), and MUST NOT further process the message.

The receiving node MUST ignore the channel update if the specified
`chain_hash` value is unknown, meaning it isn't active on the specified
chain.

The receiving node SHOULD ignore the message if `timestamp`
is not greater than than the last-received `channel_announcement` for
this `short_channel_id` and `node_id`. Otherwise, if the `timestamp` is equal to
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