Good morning Pedro, > Hi Nadav, > > You are right that the intermediary (i.e., Ingrid) needs to hold a certain > amount of coins to allow the virtual channel between Alice and Bob. Some > comments here: > - The protocol makes sure that Ingrid will get paid whatever fee she decides > to charge for the service of creating a virtual channel. Note that Ingrid > does not have the guarantee that enough payments would be routed through her > node to gain the same fee in the same amount of time.
Have not examined this deeply, but what happens if any of the *actual* Alice-Ingrid or Ingrid-Bob channels are forced unilaterally onchain before the purported lifetime of the virtual channel? Regards, ZmnSCPxj _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
