-> :fire: _What is the Power of Locktime?_ The power of locktime may not be immediately obvious because of the ability to cancel it so easily. However, it's another of the bases of Smart Contracts: it has a lot of utility in a variety of custodial or contractual applications. For example, consider a situation where a third party is holding your bitcoins. In order to guarantee the return of your bitcoins if the custodian ever disappeared, they could produce a timelock transition to return the coins to you, then update that every once in a while with a new one, further in the future. If they ever failed to update, then the coins would return to you when the current timelock expired. Locktime could similarly be applied to a payment network, where the network holds coins while they're being exchanged by network participants. Finally, a will offers an example of a more complex contract, where payments are sent out to a number of people. These payments would be built on locktime transactions, and would be continually updated as long as the owner continues to show signs of life. (The unifying factor of all of these applications is, of course, _trust_. Simple locktime transactions only work if the holder of the coins can be trusted to send them out under the appropriate conditions.)
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