Comment by [deleted] on 03/01/2018 at 11:47 UTC

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Comment by cdecker at 03/01/2018 at 11:49 UTC

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You could certainly do that, however it also means that in the case of a unilateral close, e.g., you just go offline and never come back, the other endpoint will have to wait for that timeout to expire to get its funds back. So peers might not accept channels with extremely high CLTV timeouts.