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ch03: Added monetary limit to commonality of BTC and Lightning (#260)

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* Added monetary limit to commonality of BTC and Lightning

As an alternative a new paragraph could be added with title "Monetary Limit" but I thought that adding two sentences to the "Monetary Unit" section would be enough.

* ch03: adjusted to incorporate comment
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@ -734,6 +734,8 @@ When settled on-chain, it must be settled in "satoshis".
Both the Bitcoin network and the Lightning network use the same monetary units: bitcoins.
Lightning payments use the very same bitcoins as Bitcoin transactions.
As an implication, because the monetary unit is the same, also the economic monetary limit is the same: 21 million bitcoins.
From these 21 million bitcoins, some are locked in 2-out-of-2 multisig addresses so that they can enable a payment channel on the Lightning Network.
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