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by __MatrixMan__ 543 days ago
I think this is the same line of thinking that lead to the Bitcoin lightning network.
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Unfortunately not. Every single payment has to be persisted to a disk locally. Even worse, a single payment needs to be persisted like 3-4 times during the payment exchange. Otherwise there’s counterparty risk of publishing an outdated state to the blockchain.