Thank you for that. I found the post explaining that in detail. The 2 hours I mentioned were for unsubmitted orders while orders do expire after 24 hours.
Negative. If the storage node is not submitting an order the customer will also not get charged.
Double spend protection. The storage node and the satellite have to make sure that an uplink / storage node is not submitting the same order more then once. This check comes with some tradeoffs. One of them is that orders need to expire after a few hours.
Under normal conditions this shouldn’t matter. The storage node has a backlog of 2 hours unsibmitted orders. If it goes offline for 3 days it w…