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What effect will full blocks have on security of funds within a channel? Will you be able to prevent a cheating lightning transaction if the Bitcoin transaction time is higher than the CLTV timeout?
Edited for clarity.
Comment by GibbsSamplePlatter at 06/01/2018 at 19:18 UTC
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It only depends on how much the attacker is willing to jam up stuff with really high fee transactions. To penalize your cheating counter-party, all you have to do is make it into the top 4 megaweight of the mempool. Luckily you can also use the cheater's money to pay for it!