Exploring Extended Relative Timelocks

Already answered by Pyth, but just to clarify: Timelocks aren’t really used to lock coins, but to add different conditions in Script that become valid only in the future. Typically:

  • collaborative spend with no timelock
  • unilateral spend with timelock for multiparty constructions

or, in the case of Liana:

  • regular spend condition without timelock (let’s say a 2-of-2 multisig)
  • backup spend condition with a timelock (let’s say a 2-of-3 with a 3rd party key, or even a single sig key agent)
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