Questions tagged [lightning-network]
Proposed payment system leveraging payment channels which allow re-negotiation of balances that finally get executed on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Can failed Transactions figure out which Channel is exhausted?
According to information in this LND PR the sender of an TemporaryChannelFailure can be determined:
In many cases it is impossible for the sender to determine which of the two nodes in a pair is ...
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What happens with the bitcoin locked in the payment channel if both sides lose the backup?
If none of the sides closes the channel, is the coin locked up forever?
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What is the 'tlv_payload' in lnd route?
When creating a custom route, if you use the queryroutes from lnd it sometimes with tlv_payload set to either True or False. How does the node figure whether to set this flag?
I cant seem to find ...
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how are lightning network payments instant and secure at the same time?
I have a question regarding lightning network. It's a bit of a long question so please bear with me.
If have 1 bitcoin in my wallet and buy an item costing that amount from a shop. I leave the shop ...
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What additional considerations are there for dual-funded payment channels?
Naively, it seems like a dual-funded channel should not be much more complicated than a single funded channel; You'd just have an extra input from Bob and it would be reflected in the balances of the ...
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c-lightning missing outputs
A few days ago I did a submarine swap in order to rebalance a channel of mine. I opted to be refunded on-chain using a brand-new address generated with c-lightning newaddr command. I used the p2sh ...
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Are both CSV and nLocktime unnecessary in Eltoo?
The Eltoo paper says "Notice that we could use nSequence for this purpose, but due to the interplay with OP_CSV we opted to use nLocktime". Now that Lau showed CSV not to be necessary, does that mean ...
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What happens if the commitment tx fee is too low?
How often are commitment tx fees negotiated?
Is it every time a payment is made and a new commitment transaction is formed?
What about if there are no payments but both nodes see that the on chain ...
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How to get the capacity of remote channel in Eclair?
I want to query an Eclair node for properties of a channel which I'm not a party of. Obviously, this information is in the local view of the network graph and is used for routing. However, the API ...
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Lightning Node High Availability/High Throughput
Are there any resources/best practises on running a highly available/high throughput lightning node? If my lightning service where to take off, should I be running multiple lightning nodes or a single ...
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In LN, how could a payer prove to 3rd party that he indeedly made a payment to the payee?
For regular on-chain payments, a txid can prove at least a transferring of value indeedly happened, at a specific time, despite that it may be totally irrelevant. For example, a malicious user can ...
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Lnd - how to open a double-funded channel
I know about lncli openchannel, however this means I will open a (bidirectional) channel with my peer, but initially just my side will have some balance. Let's say I agree with a collegue running ...
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Lightning - why are commitment transactions supposed to use different keys
In the paper BIP32 and deterministic key derivation are mentioned. But why given that two peers directly exchange messages (i.e., there is no need to obscure anything)? Alice always exchanges state ...
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How to obtain your nodeID (QR code) in eclair-mobile?
I want someone to open a direct (no hops between us) channel to me in lightning (she will be the funder, I'll be the fundee). How can I get the QR code of my node in my eclair wallet to show to the ...
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Can someone explain how an HTLC is redeemed?
I'm looking at Bolt 3 in the Lightning rfc. My question is about how a HTLC is redeemed. Example HTLC script for reference:
# To remote node with revocation key
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <RIPEMD160(SHA256(...
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Eltoo channel - can opening be off-chain
In Eltoo the set-up phase is similar to Lightning. You fund a n-of-n multisig (usually 2-of-2). Of course you don't want to publish this until you have a bail-out possibility - called "settlement ...
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What is the rationale for the Lightning network's path length limit (20 hops)?
A sender in the Lightning network can choose a path with up to 20 intermediaries (BOLT4).
Tor is another network that uses onion routing for anonymity. However, in Tor all paths have 3 intermediaries,...
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Does node order have meaning in a JSON describing the Lightning network graph?
LN clients can export their view of the network as a JSON file. For instance, in a file obtained from LND, a channel (edge) is described by this structure:
{
"channel_id": "555479871492063233",
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Lost funds on my lightning node?
I've been using lightning network daemon (LND). In an effort to have a balanced node with somewhat equal amounts on both side of my channels, I've sometimes opened channels with the command lncli ...
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Help signing a P2WSH Multisig
I'm trying to construct a transaction in regtest mode that spends from a P2WSH 2-of-2 multisig.
Here is the funding transaction for 5 btc. It also contains a change output for 5 btc.
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Creating beck32 address on bitcoin core automatically generate another address on lightning network
my lightning network backend is bitcoind. Interesting when I execute getnewaddress label bech32 another bech32 address is automatically generated. I found it because at the lightning network console ...
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“private” agreement between two c-lightning nodes on channel closure fee
When i was at LNConf, one of the devs of c-lightning (IIRC) told me that there is a custom, manual way to agree between two nodes on channel closing fees.
Can anyone elaborate how this is possible? I ...
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Will a channel be automatically closed if there's a expiring HTLC that doesn't have its own output in the commitment transaction?
When routed Lightning payments are smaller than some amount they don't get their own HTLC output in the commitment transaction. Instead the funds reserved to it are directed to transaction fees.
When ...
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How and When are lightning channels disabled?
On the testnet and some mainnet there are channels which are disabled, so if you try to route a payment through them it failed with this as an error message. Reading through the RPC commands, it seems ...
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lightning network bitcoin howto install
Hello fellow bitcoiners,
I would like to install lightning over Bitcoin core - I already have a full node. But every guide I follow ends up with a broken build or some issue preventing to finish the ...
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Bidirectional channel opening in c-lightning
With the current version of c-lightning is it possible to open a bidirectional channel funded by both parties?
I managed to open a channel with fundchannel command, but that seems to be a ...
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How does the 'queryroutes' function in lightning's LND calculate the route fees?
I am testing my own routing implementation and for some weird reason a handful of channels reject my payment stating InsufficientFee.
The scenario is A -c1-> B -c2-> C whereby Node A is ...
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Doubt on lightning channel opening
It's 5 days since I opened my first (and unique, for now) lightning channel.
Unfortunately it seems that only me have funded the channel while the counterparty didn't, so the channel it's actually a ...
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Throughput of Lightning Network
Is there any reliable source of information regarding the estimation of the number of payments that occur in Lightning Network every day? If the total number is impossible to estimate are there any ...
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In Lightning commitment transactions, what do the upper 8 bits of sequence and locktime represent?
In Bolt 3 of the Lightning Network specs, for commitment transactions it states:
locktime: upper 8 bits are 0x20, lower 24 bits are the lower 24 bits of the obscured commitment number.
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Could someone provide an example of a tx spending from an input with a relative LockTime?
I want to see an example of a raw transaction which spends from an input which has a relative LockTime applied to it. An example would be a transaction from a Lightning payment channel in which a user ...
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What is the difference between listpeers vs listnodes commands?
In c-lightning implementation, what is the difference between the listpeers and listnodes commands of lightning-cli?
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Would a dual-funded channel be a single UTXO?
Would a dual-funded channel be a single tx? The peers would cooperatively create a single tx with at least 1 input each. Is this correctly understood?
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How to securely update and verify C-Lightning release?
Recently, a new version (v0.7.3) of C-Lightning was released. The GitHub page has detailed instructions on how to build the software from source, but does not provide much details as to how to update ...
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How can I check my transaction signature is correct?
I have tried recreating the exact transaction from "Appendix B: Funding Transaction Test Vectors" from BOLT 3 from the Lightning RFCs. My transaction looks exactly the same when parsed, except my ...
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If a user recovered data directory of LN node software with an old backup, what would happen? Would cooperative channel closing be possible?
As far as I know, the "Data Loss Protection" feature would just request the counterparty to unilaterally close the channel. I wonder if mutual closing is still possible, with old channel states?
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lightning node data visibility on explorers
I'm trying to set my first c-lightning node with docker-compose using image from https://hub.docker.com/r/elementsproject/lightningd. currently, my node can connect and open channel with other nodes (...
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Is there a limit to the TLV size?
I hear that a TLV field was recently added to the payment format. This will allow the sender to attach a message to the recipient in the payment package. How much data can be included in the TLV field?...
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Why do we need revocation in both the offered/received HTLC outputs and HTLC timeout/success outputs?
The witness script for the output in the HTLC success/timeout transaction is:
OP_IF
# Penalty transaction
<revocationpubkey>
OP_ELSE
`to_self_delay`
OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY
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Multisig refund transaction flaw in Lightning Network talk
I was watching Tadje Dryja's talk at SF Bitcoin Devs conference on transaction malleability, which formed part of the basis behind the Lightning Network.
At 17'45", I saw this example. Prior to ...
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Possible race condition(double spend) on HTLC-Timeout in the lightning network?
From the offered HTLC Outputs,
# To remote node with revocation key
OP_DUP OP_HASH160 <RIPEMD160(SHA256(revocationpubkey))> OP_EQUAL
OP_IF
OP_CHECKSIG
OP_ELSE
<remote_htlcpubkey> ...
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How can someone lose funds in Lightning Network?
In Bitcoin once you own a private key associated with an address that had bitcoins on it, your funds are theoretically safe for ever. But on the Lightning Network, I see that once you send bitcoin to ...
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What are the downsides of Hodl Invoices?
As far as I understand hodl invoices enable some interesting use cases. However, I heard that they can be detrimental to the network. Is that correct and in what way? Additionally, at a talk at the ...
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How does lnd make sure it does not reuse the same route twice for a retry after the first payment failed?
Suppose LND node A wants to send a payment to another node D. The pathfind algorithm based on Dijkstra found a route through B and C and initiates the payment. It fails, as B -> C does not have ...
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Bitcoin Lightning Network
I created a channel in lightning network, did the payment and the channel balance of the receiver got updated. But after closing the channel , the wallet balance of the receiver is not getting updated ...
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How much time does it take for a Lightning node to forward an HTLC?
How much time passes between the moment an intermediary node receives an HTLC and the moment it forwards if to the next hop? At least what order of magnitude is it? Is it comparable with network-...
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Can BitML encode Lightning?
I have been reading the BitML paper. The language compiles to another language (Balzac [which in turn compiles to Bitcoin Script]), which can do relative and absolute timelocks. Balzac can also do ...
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Sweep all functionality for a Bitcoin Lightning private key using mobile, desktop, or cli wallet?
Bitcoin wallets have a sweep all function to transfer all coins from one private key to another. Is there such a feature in a bitcoin lightning wallet where you can sweep all coins from a lightning ...
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What does a Bitcoin lightning private key look like?
I know bitcoin private keys start with a 5... But how does a lightning bitcoin private key look like? Say I wanted to printed it out as a paper wallet.
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How many paths are tried on average before a payment succeeds in Lightning?
In Lightning, the sender can never be sure that a multi-hop payment will go through, as intermediary nodes don't announce the distribution of funds in their channels (only the total capacity). Is ...
