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If you never close channels, you can print infinite Bitcoins. No one knows the true state of a channel until it is settled.
by devname 5y ago
If you never close channels, you can print infinite Bitcoins. No one knows the true state of a channel until it is settled.
- gruez 5y agouhh what? It's true that nobody knows what the state of the channel is, but the capacity is known. so they know it would conclude with either party A getting 0.1 BTC (for example), party B getting 0.1 BTC, or somewhere in between.