It's like an abacus, the old calculator which uses beads on a wire - the beads can slide along the wire to either side, but they stay on the wire. They can slide in either direction until they're all on one side. Once the beads are all on one side it means the channel can only send (no inbound liquidity beads left to slide) or only receive (no outbound liquidity beads left to slide.)

Even though some of a nodes channels have all the liquidity on one side, it can still function, but now it's like navigating down one-way streets where the options are more limited and it might take more turns to reach the destination.

Here:

• https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/the-lightning-network-and-the-airport
• https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/managing-lightning-node-liquidity

Great, now I feel a little bit older and wiser!

I still have some doubts.

1.When opening a new channel, both nodes has to provide the same amount of SATS?

2. For example, if I'm using Phoenix Wallet and I want to create a new channel I just send X sats to my wallet from Coinos per example. Once this channel is open, the 3000 sats fees has been paid. Can I withdraw some of the sats deposited to Coinos again? Or this "payment" has to be done to another node? 🤔

Thanks everyone for the help

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