Rene Pickhardt recently kicked off a thread discussing the differences between two party and multiparty (more than two participants) payment channels as it relates to his research work around payment reliability on the Lightning Network. He voices a growing skepticism of the viability of that direction for development.

The high level idea of why channel factories improve the reliability of payments comes down to liquidity allocation. In a network of only two…

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