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 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.
Not exact matches
So it's hugely meaningful to our ability to
open up
new channels and to make sure there's clarity in terms of who controls the
payment information.