From ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com  Thu Feb 11 05:31:21 2021
From: ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com (ZmnSCPxj)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 05:31:21 +0000
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Escrow Over Lightning?
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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?

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