«Leveraging [blockchain] / DLT technologies to provide a fantastic new foundation, enabled by layers of abstraction, can
enable new payment channels, and securely hook in resources of all sorts,» he wrote, adding:
Those that are not tech - aware may have it difficult to embrace
the new payment channel.
Once the three confirmations have passed, you can use lightning - cli to list
a new payment channel, which you can then you to make payments to the Blockstream store.
For example, if Alice want to pay Bob, she doesn't necessarily need to open
a new payment channel to Bob if they both have another channel already open to a common receiver.
The requirements for placing tokens into escrow mean that it may become expensive to open
a new payment channel to each address you want to pay.
This eliminates the need to construct
a new payment channel for every party that you want to transact with.
This will just be a one - time transaction, so there's no point in opening
a new payment channel.
So to accomplish that, there must be a way to transact with people on the network without opening
a new payment channel each time.