Different Ways to Close a Lightning Payment Channel

Mabel Oza
Coinmonks
Published in
15 min readMar 24, 2023

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In the lightning network, payment channels can close in 3 different ways, and they're good, bad, and ugly. The good is a "collaborative close" when both parties work together to close the channel. The bad is a "force close" when one party can't close the channel. The ugly is a "dispute close" when there's a force close, but the other party comes back and disputes the close initiated by the other…

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Mabel Oza
Coinmonks

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