Comment by cdecker on 04/01/2018 at 09:07 UTC

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That's why, upon opening a channel, the two endpoints first agree on a reserve[1] value, below which the channel balance may not drop. This is to make sure that both endpoints always have some skin in the game as /u/rustyreddit puts it :-)

1: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/4e6eb48e1465c2a2161a0f75fe0344770044ea34/02-peer-protocol.md#the-open_channel-message

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