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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by zaptrem on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:04PM (#29229615)
Don't LN channels require a (quite expensive) transaction to open and close?
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by gruez on Monday November 15, 2021 @12:43PM (#29230098)
>quite expensive

Are you talking about compared to regular transactions, or because network fees (per byte) are high?

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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by jimmydorry on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:50PM (#29235129)
Quite expensive, as in $1?

That $1 enables as many transactions as you want between party A and B, of which party B may have dozens of open channels with other nodes to facilitate routing from party A to C etc.

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