Comment by Godspiral on 12/01/2018 at 19:23 UTC

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the part that concerns me is that balance updates on a chanel are made through future (on chain) transactions, and so I assume those need to use a fee (high enough) guaranteed to go through under any circumstance... ?

IIUC, opening a chanel doesn't necessarily imply a (high) fee if closing a chanel pays for child tx. That is, the chanel is open before the tx for it confirms, I think.

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Comment by geezas at 13/01/2018 at 04:20 UTC

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I don't think a channel will be considered open until it's confirmed on the blockchain