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I think this is the same line of thinking that lead to the Bitcoin lightning network.



Unfortunately not. Every single payment has to be persisted to a disk locally. Even worse, a single payment needs to be persisted like 3-4 times during the payment exchange. Otherwise there’s counterparty risk of publishing an outdated state to the blockchain.




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