- You still need to open (and close) a channel, paying BTC fees.
- To accept a payment, you need to first lock up balance.
- You need to always be online, otherwise your channel is closed.
- Sometimes your payment can fail, if you cannot find a route. This risk increases with the payment amount.
- Sometimes, you cannot even find a payment route, so you need to open another channel.
- Sometimes, the other person on the other side of your channel might close your channel.
- Despite all this, payments might still have a relatively expensive fee (in addition to the BTC fees).
People are trying to create solutions for these problems, but they're often either quite complex, introduce third-party dependency or both.
- You still need to open (and close) a channel, paying BTC fees.
- To accept a payment, you need to first lock up balance.
- You need to always be online, otherwise your channel is closed.
- Sometimes your payment can fail, if you cannot find a route. This risk increases with the payment amount.
- Sometimes, you cannot even find a payment route, so you need to open another channel.
- Sometimes, the other person on the other side of your channel might close your channel.
- Despite all this, payments might still have a relatively expensive fee (in addition to the BTC fees).
People are trying to create solutions for these problems, but they're often either quite complex, introduce third-party dependency or both.