Jim McDonald
Jul 29, 2017 · 1 min read

In the version of the payment channel as described above it is two transactions, as 2 and 3 are all one transaction. In later articles, when building a real payment channel solution, the withdrawal pattern is used which increases the total number of transactions (but does keep the gas costs approximately the same due to the lightweight nature of the withdraw transactions).

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