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Stephan Livera Podcast

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Lightning Gateway - Just Thinking Through the Balance

There is a reason that the lightning gateway is an independent operator, like they have to come up with additional capital. Like whatevers in lightning not is not counte towards the backing capital of the federation. And so they are an independent economic actor. If all the transactions are outgoing, then eventually they will have a lot of cash and no funds in their channels. The just withdraw some bit current from the federation and open a new channel. That's like their business decision to make when to do this and how often to do this. I say, gotce.

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