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This is a very good question and I will give a quick summary of what is happening here. The longer version can be seen on my educational video on how to create payment channels starting at 33:41 (though I would recommend to watch from the beginning to review bitcoin and notation.)
My understanding being the multi sig wallet is a temporary address which ...
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A lightning funding transaction is a P2WSH transaction, which appears on chain as paying to some random-looking script hash, but the redeemScript which can unlock and spend the money is not revealed on chain until the transaction gets spent (which is when the channel gets closed in Lightning's case).
You can recreate the redeemScript if you know the funding ...
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They can only be detected when force closed and there are still pending htlcs otherwise they look like a spend from a 2-2 multisig wallet. I've been told some people try to do chain analysis and machine learning to predict private channels. I highly doubt that this is reasonably possible.
Although there is one thing to consider. If a node has public and ...
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A funding transaction is one where some money is paid into a P2WSH transaction output, where the redeeemScript is a 2-of-2 multisig between the two participants. No other information is provided.
Technically, even the redeemScript for the funding is not revealed until the funding transaction output is spent (channel closed), which makes it less obvious that ...
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The "instant" payment of Lightning is only possible for already-established Lightning channels. New channels are subject to confirmation times like any other bitcoin transaction.
When a channel is opened, the fundee specifies a minimum depth at which the channel must be confirmed for it to be considered active. Once it has been broadcast and has reached ...
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The two answers provided are great, but I just wanted to add something short and to the point, to address what I think is the main point of your misunderstanding:
To open a LN channel, you will coordinate with a peer to create a multi-sig address and funding transaction that pays to it (there are some further details that are agreed upon during channel ...
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Channel funding (and the distribution of funds) is determined at the time of channel opening. Once opened, a party cannot ‘add funds’ to the channel, this would require opening a new channel.
If you opened the channel and did not specify that some number of sats should be pushed to the remote node at the time of opening, then the channel will open with the ...
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You can set the option --maxpendingchannels=0 to disallow peers to open channels to your node.
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lncli pendingchannels gives a pendingChannelRespnse which might have the pending_open_channels parameter. This contains an array of PendingOpenChannel objects.
According to the documentation they should have a parameter confirmation_height which is the height of the blockchain at which the funding TX has enough confirmations (the max of your and your ...
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Not all implementations support multiple channels between two nodes. That is why I would advise against that practice. Also I do not really see an advantage of having two channels. We don't have Atomic multipath routing yet so in general it makes more sense to have larger channels.
Only counter argument I see is that one channel can only have 483 htlcs ...
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