Questions tagged [ln-closing-channels]
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How to force close a channel at the original state, for a good cause
A few months ago I created a payment channel from my desktop node, on LND, to my mobile node, on Blixt. Then I tested a few payments between the nodes, and the final balance on the mobile phone is now ...
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Stuck low-feerate transaction after forced closed channel
Someone cooperatively closed a channel with me, then forced closed it later. It has not confirmed. In fact, it is not even showing up in mempool, which says "waiting for transaction". I'm ...
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How to avoid a force closure of a channel in the future
On May 14th our channel with LNBIG-42 was force closed and has only returned to the wallet minus some fees a few days ago.
https://mempool.space/tx/...
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Is the balance of the channel safe if I set unilateraltimeout to 0 and go offline when mutually closing the channel?
I run a core lighning node with a couple of private, single-founded channels.
Because of my circumstances my node is usually online for a couple of hours every three days or so.
I want to mutually ...
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LND how to recover abandoned channel
Years ago I used LND's abandonchannel command to abandon two channels, it was stupid and I didn't know what I was doing at the time.
These are the only sats I ever lost.
Ever since, whenever I use the ...
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What happens if a Lightning channel close transaction is evicted from the mempool?
I recently had a cooperative close of a Lightning channel and the two Lightning nodes agreed a fee rate of about 1 sat/vbyte for the closing transaction. (This was fine by me; I always like to keep ...
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Lightning Node (MyNode) gone missing. How to recover funds?
I had a RaspPi/MyNode with a few LND channels open. The node has unfortunately gone missing/stolen and I'm trying to figure out the best way to get the funds back.
I have access to my seed words for ...
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Force closes reasons
What are the different reasons for a Lightning Network node to force a channel closure automatically, without user interaction?
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Why does a single expired HTLC with an unresponsive peer cause automatic force closure of the whole channel?
As far as I understand: the expiration of a single HTLC in a payment channel with an unresponsive partner causes the whole payment channel to force close (Behaviour A). This has been discussed, for ...
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Force Closure of a channel with LNBig-42:
On May 14th our channel with LNBIG-42 was force closed. Not sure why but it could have been due to their node performing an update on the same day which caused a few other nodes to also have their ...
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How do I correctly specify feerange of [slow,normal] on running lightling-cli close?
I close my lightning channels on Core Lightning with the following Bash script:
#!/usr/bin/bash
close_channel() {
echo -e "${ita}unilateraltimeout${end} in seconds?";read tmt
echo "...
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Force-closure of unknown channel: What do status `Loaded from database` and the state AWAITING_UNILATERAL mean?
I noticed that the majority of my lightning payments fail despite increasing the fee. It's been like this over the last two months.
Investigating this matter, I found an inactive channel in the output ...
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How to use chantools pullanchor?
The official documentation describes very little about how to do this, and we would like to get more information, in particular how to count <vout
