
SLP319 T-Bast Lightning Protocol Privacy Exploration
Stephan Livera Podcast
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The Unchained Footprint for Lightning Payments
There is an unchained footprint for a lightning payment. It's not like people using lightning are just never touching the chain. Once that channel is open, you can start doing lightning payments. And then at some point you may want to close that channel. So there are two ways the channel may be closed. Either you do a corroborative mutual close while you both decide how we want to close. Or there's another way, where one of the two parties can decide to unileter, really close. That's very important to be able to do in case your pearjest goes completely off line and you want to get your friends back. But this isn't that common right now on
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