📅 Original date posted:2021-02-11
📝 Original message:
> On Feb 11, 2021, at 6:31 AM, ZmnSCPxj <ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
As a safe fallback, the protocol gives time to Ingrid (or Bob depending on the case) to put the other channel onchain before the punishment can be triggered.
>
> Regards,
> ZmnSCPxj
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-09 13:01:59
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