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0 pointsminsc__and__boo5y ago0 comments

People watch for bad checks as well. Plenty of cash registers used to have example bad checks laminated on them, back when the modern financial system was still using IOUs like that.

You can make a lightning transaction, drain your bitcoin wallet before it verifies, and no amount of watching the chain will get the seller back whatever they traded you for that transaction. Just because you identify the fraudulent transaction before it finally verifies doesn't mean that the fraud wasn't committed. Same with bad checks.

I thought you were talking about 3P escrow, because watchtowers are even worse than escrow in fighting fraud, for reasons outlined above.

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xur175y ago· 1 in thread

> You can make a lightning transaction, drain your bitcoin wallet before it verifies, and no amount of watching the chain will get the seller back whatever they traded you for that transaction. Just because you identify the fraudulent transaction before it finally verifies doesn't mean that the fraud wasn't committed. Same with bad checks.

No you cannot, again, that's not how it works. You commit funds to a channel on chain before you can spend funds in a channel. I don't think you understand how lightning works.

minsc__and__booOP5y ago

Yes, you commit funds before the initial transaction, but loop allows you to move them to another wallet before the channel closes.

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