Questions tagged [ln-closing-channels]
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Can a channel be closed while the funding tx is still stuck in the mempool?
I have attempted to open a channel recently, but accidentally set the fee for the funding transaction too low. Now the funding tx has been stuck in the mempool for over a week. Is there some way to ...
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Lightning close-channel transaction example?
From this article, I can understand that a punishment-based bidirectional payment channel (the type used by Lightning) would contain roughly this bitcoin script as one of the outputs:
OP_IF
“+7 days” ...
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Why is my LND node closing channels?
I have noticed when running lncli closedchannels, that I have some channels that are closed by my node (close_type: local_force_close).
I am quite sure I have not initiated this manually myself. Is ...
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Lightning - Question about force-closures of channels and its impact on recovering funds
Dear Lightning experts,
someone mentioned in context with lightning channels the following things, and I would like to ask you if this statements are true, and if yes, is this a problem in a future ...
