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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 3 from 3 users
Re: The Lightning Network FAQ
by
Carlton Banks
on 05/11/2020, 18:09:14 UTC
⭐ Merited by jackg (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1) ,Pmalek (1)
@Pmalek

the key phrase in your explanation is here:

We open up a payment channel

...because of you open a channel directly to the grocery place, then your outgoing capacity is their incoming capacity. For that channel only.

So it would be no problem in that case, but the grocery place would get some info about your on-chain funds (i.e. how much change you received from the tx that opened the channel to them)