Having both is useful. Owning both sides of a dedicated lightning channel is a superpower.
Cannot uncle Jim any other way without worrying about force closures.
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That’s an interesting take. So that second channel is for emergency liquidity to the uncle Jim node?
No, If you own both sides of a channel you can literally host a private circular economy.
To have a channel you need two parties. To own a channel you have to be two parties. Unless it's possible to open a channel to yourself on a single node.
Then I am dumb and forgive me.