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From a quick reading (just spent a minute after seeing this article) lightning claims support for secure forwarding. So there might be an economic way for a pay
by gregwebs 5y ago
From a quick reading (just spent a minute after seeing this article) lightning claims support for secure forwarding. So there might be an economic way for a payment app to operate the channel.
- runeks 5y agoYes, the very basis of LN is secure forwarding between payment channels. Alice wants to send 1 BTC to Bob. Alice is connected — via a payment channel — to Mallory, and Mallory is connected to Bob. To do this Alice can send 1 BTC to Mallory, and then Mallory can send 1 BTC to Bob. This requires 1 BTC to be locked in both payment channels. The only thing LN guarantees is that the transfer is atomic, such that Mallory cannot refuse to forward the 1 BTC (received from Alice) to Bob.