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From: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander•se>
To: "bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org"
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Off-chain transactions and miner fees
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:39:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7458113.kgSzuHbtZH@coldstorage> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <567909F0-F686-4B38-A745-637423E12311@gmail.com>

On Monday 10. August 2015 07.57.30 Rune K. Svendsen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> What Lightning does is raise the value of a transaction on the block chain.
> Imagine you're a Lightning node, and in order to collect your fees, that
> you've earned over the past month, you have to settle on the blockchain. If
> you've earned, say, 0.5 BTC in fees, you can attach a huge 0.005 BTC fee to
> the Bitcoin settlement transaction. The miners earn a larger fee, and you
> make sure your transaction gets into the blockchain quickly, and you can
> afford to pay this fee because you've made much more on the Lightning
> transactions you've routed.

I don't buy that argument, you are saying a company will give away profits 
because of... what? It can?

The reason of it being faster makes no sense, as your example the channel has 
been open for a month then he really doesn't care it takes 1, 10 or 50 blocks 
before his transaction is included.  What is 5 hours wait on a month of profit?

-- 
Thomas Zander


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-10  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-09 22:20 info
2015-08-10  5:01 ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-10  5:57 ` Rune K. Svendsen
2015-08-10  8:39   ` Thomas Zander [this message]
2015-08-10 15:53     ` Leo Wandersleb
2015-08-10 21:16       ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-10  9:01   ` GC
2015-08-10 15:35   ` info
2015-08-10 18:50 ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 19:14   ` Hector Chu
2015-08-10 19:26     ` Anthony Towns
2015-08-10 19:54       ` Hector Chu
2015-08-10 21:12   ` Eric Voskuil

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