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It's an interesting question, for sure. Like you say, the channels need funds to function. Some of that funding may be of further utility, but a functional network likely requires more than the bare minimum - if I open a channel to you, but only I commit funds, we have a uni-directional channel for the time being...not so great.
That said, I wonder if there's enough "idle" funds floating around to handle this burden without economic impact. For instance, if I need to tie up some BTC to maintain my Lightning node, I'm just going to use some coins that are sitting idle; it won't impact the amount I'm trading or transacting with. For bigger entities, it's unclear what the impact will be.
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