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		devname on April 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Avg. Transaction Fee of Bitcoin Surpassed the Peak... If you never close channels, you can print infinite Bitcoins. No one knows the true state of a channel until it is settled.

gruez on April 22, 2021 [–]

uhh what? It's true that nobody knows what the state of the channel is, but the capacity is known. so they know it would conclude with either party A getting 0.1 BTC (for example), party B getting 0.1 BTC, or somewhere in between.

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