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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. Both the Bitcoin network and the Lightning network use the same monetary units: bitcoins.
Lightning payments use the very same bitcoins as Bitcoin transactions. 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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