I assumed @fiatjaf was working on these in his spare time. Did ZBD acquire them or were they always ZBD projects?
I am guessing fiatjaf is sponsored open source developer. There is high probability that the software they have picked would become unmaintained otherwise.
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What does ZEBEDEE gain by doing that?
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they might be interested in hosted channels. HC are actually convenient from custodial point of view. Private and native to LN. Much better than chaumian e-cash which demands additional heterogeneous network or separate protocols.
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