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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Basics of the Lightning Network - explanation and wallets
by
btj
on 27/08/2018, 12:54:45 UTC
That's why eltoo was proposed. It will be an alternative to the current penalty system. A softfork is needed. Also, it's not possible to spend all funds that are locked up in the channel - there is such a thing as reserve which is a minimum balance that channel must maintain. For example, one of my channels has 0.0049 BTC capacity; the reserve is 0.000049 BTC.

Thank you for your time reading the article ! Yes it cover many cases with offering a solutions to remedy the problems.

Eltoo solve the problem by continuously updating payment channel balances off-chain.

Soft fork is required since “SIGHASH_NOINPUT” flag for signature must be introduced to Bitcoin Protocol to make it working.

I suggest you to edit your post and add this basic video explaination about how LN works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrr_zPmEiME