Quote from: stdset on December 13, 2016, 09:15:44 AM

Quote from: JFC on December 12, 2016, 06:37:52 PM

More specifically: What kind of transactions would have to happen obligatorily in the blockchain? Monthly salary payments to fund the channel, for instance? What else?

That doesn't have to happen onchain. Nothing prevents salary payments from happening over LN.

Hi,

I must be missing something here.
Imagine we are living in LN Land in the near future and then a somewhat typical scenario (give or take a few bitcoins)...

Adam is a good web designer and earns 10 BTC every month.
He lives with mom and dad and he is a thrifty guy, so he only spends 3 BTC each month and saves the rest.

Let's say he receives and spends all of his money over the LN. He routes all of this money transfers through LN-Pay, a popular bitcoin routing services company.

If he is receiving 10 BTC every month and he only sends back 3 BTC, so he is accumulating 7 BTC/month.

Won't that quickly deplete any reasonable funding transaction that LN-Pay was willing to fund when he became a client?