Re:Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency
by keymone on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:55AM
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what incentive does a hub have to do that? it's easy to accuse a hub in doing that but it's trivial for a hub to prove they aren't. if it is ever proven that hub holds on to somebody's channel - the hub loses reputation and customers.
But it can keep coins that remain in them until the channel expires and for usable channels it will be at least a month or two. So some amount of trust is required. Also, unless I don't know about something, wallet software needs to store additional data for LN to work that can't be just reconstructed from private key/paper wallet.