Comment by jaydoors on 12/01/2018 at 18:44 UTC

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A normal transaction on the main chain

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Comment by [deleted] at 12/01/2018 at 19:11 UTC

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Well, if people are doing billions of transactions off chain maybe the mining rewards on the chain won't be large enough for the miners.

Meaning that the costs onchain will be larger than what most people can handle.

Meaning that you would need to use a 3rd party to keep your coins, while the third party will pay the transaction costs of opening/closing channels.

Or if you arrived too late, you can't even get on the 2nd layer.