Comment by varikonniemi on 03/01/2018 at 11:12 UTC

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No, you only need to check occasionally that the other party is not cheating.

A) trust other party

B) check it yourself every few days

C) externalize the monitoring to a trusted party

D) only send transactions, then no need to check, ever

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Comment by robotlasagna at 03/01/2018 at 12:32 UTC

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See when you use words like "Use a trusted party" or "Trust other party" it kinda goes against the whole point of LN which is that it is by default supposed to be "trustless"