I am very interested in seeing how lightning payouts would work for small miners. I would think that liquidity would constantly be an issue since virtually all lightning transactions would be going in a single direction.

Would each block found result in the need for a new lightning channel? What about the liquidity of the channel partners to the broader network? Or would Ocean have a channel opened to each entity mining with them and the channel would just need to be rebalanced once in a while?  

 Maybe, sounded more like it’s not even a WIP and just an idea they had from Luke’s perspective on-stream, and isn’t included in the “in the next year” sentence in their about page.