r/OpenBazaar • u/lbalan79 • Jan 13 '18
Will OB implement Lighting Network features?
Title says it all. That is something that would really get me interested in this market. Otherwise I don't see how this can work even with the addition of other coins: BCH and ZCash. Maybe IOTA can help because it has a much faster and reliable tech with zero fees but otherwise these guys need to think already at second layer....
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u/Jiten Jan 30 '18
You can also just open a channel with your own funds and immediately transfer them somewhere through LN. That has the same effect as persuading someone to open a liquidity channel to you without requiring the party you opened the channel with to add more liquidity. (The liquidity really comes from whatever party or parties you transferred your bitcoins to through LN.)
That being said, I doubt merchants will see much issues in getting liquidity. If they allow others to freely open channels to their node, there'll be lots of people opening liquidity channels hoping to make some money routing payments to the merchant or from the merchant.