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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: The Lightning Network FAQ
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vjudeu
on 09/07/2021, 09:25:12 UTC
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i was just thinking we could also do triangles (or some more obscene geometric formations) in the future - or are they absolete with dual-funded channels?
Technically, you can include a lot of inputs and outputs in a single transaction. As long as transaction size will be below 100 kB, it should be possible to open and close many channels with many participants in a single transaction. The main problem is in lightning clients understanding what is going on, it may be impossible to create such transaction with some standard lightning client, but may be possible to create and sign it with for example Bitcoin Core and then get it accepted by some lightning node. It is definitely possible in case of opening a channel (you can open many channels by using a single opening transaction), closing it is harder, because you have to put that transaction inside the lightning client somehow and convince other lightning nodes to do the same.