From 4d9774e51913c4d5b114aedd7d6a5d4b8cd827e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andreas M. Antonopoulos" Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:44:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #431 --- 03_how_ln_works.asciidoc | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc b/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc index 444ea9b..bf0bac9 100644 --- a/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc +++ b/03_how_ln_works.asciidoc @@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ Beyond all the technical primitives, the Lightning Network protocol is a creativ As we saw in the previous chapter, Alice used her wallet software to create a payment channel between her and another Lightning Network participant. -A channel is only limited by two things: +A channel is only limited by three things: First, the time it takes for the internet to transfer the few hundred bytes of data that the protocol requires to move funds from one end of the channel to the other. Second, the capacity of the channel, meaning the amount of bitcoin that is committed to the channel when it is opened. +Third, the maximum size limit of a Bitcoin transaction also limits the number of incomplete (in progress) routed payments that can be carried simultaneously over a channel. Payment channels have a few very interesting and useful properties: