diff --git a/docs/liquid/liquid-part3.md b/docs/liquid/liquid-part3.md index fbee084..c423b6d 100644 --- a/docs/liquid/liquid-part3.md +++ b/docs/liquid/liquid-part3.md @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ What if you have no desire to create tokens, securities, etc...can you still mak Yes, probably one of the best ways to do that is to use it as a *staging area* for opening Lightning channels. In fact, both Blockstream Green and the newly announced (more user friendly) AQUA both do that under-the-hood[^5]. -Ignore inbound liquidity issues, lets just look at current pain points in setting up outbound LN channels: +Ignoring inbound liquidity issues, lets just look at current pain points in setting up outbound LN channels: * High fees to open / close * High fees then force larger minimums for open / close * Higher channel sizes then increases risk @@ -141,6 +141,21 @@ Currently opening an outbound LN channel would require approx 7500 sats to compl However if we use Liquid as the *staging area* the cost plummets. Currently opening a 15,000 sat LN channel from Liquid would currently cost approx 163 sats in fee -- thats only a 1% cost basis (over 7x cheaper than doing it on mainchain *and a much smaller channel*). Cost basis goes even lower if we go for larger channels, so a 100,000 sat LN open from Liquid would cost 248 sats -- a 0.25% cost basis! +| | Channel Open Size | Total Fee (sats) | Effective Cost-Basis | +|-|-------------------|------------------|----------------------| +|BTC | 10,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | > 100% (NOT POSSIBLE) | +| | 20,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | 62.5% (Extremely Expensive) | +| | 50,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | 25% (Extremely Expensive) | +| | 100,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | 12.5% (Very Expensive) | +| | 200,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | 6.25% (Very Expensive) | +| | 500,000 sat | ~ 12,500 sat | 2.5% (Expensive) | +| L-BTC| 10,000 sat | 158 sat | 1.5% (OK, not great) | +| | 20,000 sat | ~ 168 sat | 0.8% (Great) | +| | 50,000 sat | ~ 198 sat | 0.4% (Great) | +| | 100,000 sat | ~ 248 sat | 0.2% (Great) | +| | 200,000 sat | ~ 348 sat | 0.1% (Great) | +| | 500,000 sat | ~ 648 sat | 0.1% (Great) | +