Replying to Avatar Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb)

Ok - but, when do #lightning payments in a channel actually move on-chain? This was not explained here. I get the basics of channels now, and why I would need one - but this still doesn't explain how zapping works and why I would potentially need a channel for that. In fact, I am convinced I need none so far. O.o I'll just keep reading for now... maybe the rest of the docs resolve this, eventually.

https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels/lifecycle-of-a-payment-channel

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Anthro artworks (18+) 2y ago

Lightning channel balance moves on chain when that channel is closed.

However, there are these things called swaps - where people exchange lightning balance for on chain balance, thus they don't have to close their channel.

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