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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: The Lightning Network FAQ
by
PrimeNumber7
on 09/01/2022, 19:57:44 UTC
If you ever wondered how often someone is penalized for fraudulent behaviour, forkmonitor keeps track of all penalty transactions ever broadcast. Apparently, there have been 419 unsuccessful cheat attempts with a total of ~5.13 BTC at stake since the end of 2017.
I don't think all these transactions are necessarily "cheat attempts". For example, I have read about instances in which an LN node failed, the user restored from a backup that did not have the correct channel state, which resulted in the backup-restored node trying to close the channel via an old channel state.