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I understand that after a channel is created, A and B need to agree and sign to create a new transaction. The new transaction overrides the previous transaction. A or B could quit the channel by broadcasting the transaction onto Bitcoin network so that the transaction is final:

txn 0: A:0.5, B:0.5
txn 1: A:0.3, B:0.7
txn 2: A:0.9, B:0.1

A or B quit channel, broadcast txn 2, so A will have 0.9 and B will have 0.1

But what if B quit the channel, broadcasting txn 1 rather than txn 2 on to the Bitcoin network? Wouldn't the txn 1 becomes final and B could walk away with 0.7?

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  • Welcome to Bitcoin.SE! I can see you have some experience on SE sites so I will leave you to it.
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    Feb 11, 2018 at 4:31

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Apparently there is a time until which A can question the transaction because he will have proof for the later transaction that has happened. And B will lose all the money in the channel for broadcasting a previous transaction.

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  • If B already send all money to A, wouldn't B not lost anything by trying so, camping on the possibility that A could be offline on that period of time? (btw, how long is the period? It probably is not too long, because the BTC is probably locked in the period)
    – Helin Wang
    Feb 8, 2018 at 18:49

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