Alan Carbery via Lightning-dev <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > All the tutorials that I've read about Lightning describe bi-directional > channels. However, reading through the draft RFC I'm wondering if it's > uni-directional only. Can anyone clarify if this is the case and if so then > is there a reason for not doing bi-directional channels in the first > release?
No, they're bidirectional! It's just that each side sends a batch of updates followed by a commitment, then the other side replies with an ack. Both sides can do that independently and it all works out. Hope that helps! Rusty. _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
