Hello all,

Christian Decker pointed the following out
(source:https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/000991.html):

>I'd also like to point out that the way we do state invalidations in
>Lightning is not really suited for multi-party negotiations beyond 2
>parties. The number of potential reactions to a party cheating grows
>exponentially in the number of parties in the contract, which is the
>reason the Channel Factories paper relies on the Duplex Micropayment
>Channel construction instead of the retaliation construction in LN.

Can somebody ellaborate on this assumption?

Best,

Alejandro.
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