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hey jesse have u done any research on how much capacity is needed to support a certain amount of transaction volume on lightning? since your AI is essentially trying to build the most efficient lightning “roads” I’m wondering how much bitcoin we really need “locked up” in the lightning network to support $30b of payments a day (global credit card daily transaction volume estimate) if all the sats are just bouncing back and forth
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Jestopher 7mo ago

The transactions are bidirectional so you can actually pack a ton of activity into a single small channel as long as the transactions happen both ways.

I've been thinking of it more like an international trade deficit or surplus. To cover a $30b trade deficit, you basically need $30b in lightning capacity, assuming everything stays in lightning.

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Jestopher 7mo ago

The short answer is more in bigger channels.