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SLP483 Lightning in a High Fee Environment with Niftynei, D++ & Nate

Stephan Livera Podcast

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The Impact of Anchors on Lightning Network Capacity

Right now the current design of lightning every channel inside of it has a little bucket of stats that's reserved to pay fees. And so as those fees go up the amount of liquidity you have in that channel in order to route payments goes down right. So this might also, I haven't really thought through the thing here, this might contribute to on chain to force closes maybe, at least like reduces. But it's like so on chain fees rising have an impact on the lightning network capacity prior to anchors. Every single channel is like a bucket of funds of a fixed size right.

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