Questions tagged [ln-channel-capacity-management]
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Receiving payment in Lightning Network is a big problem?
There are some requirements to receive Lightning funds. According to here,
Nothing can be received immediately after creating a new payment channel, as ‘room’ for incoming funds has to be made by spending some funds first.
I would like to be able…
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What is "Link-Level Multiplexing"?
In a discussion about private channels, Conner Fromknecht mentioned a concept called Link-Level Multiplexing. What is this and what is it useful for? How does it work?
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Lightning, multiple channels to the same node
With LND, you can open multiple channels to the same node. Is there any advantages to having multiple channels (to the same node) versus having one channel?
Eg. one channel with a capacity of 1 000 000 sats or two channels with 500 000 sats each?
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Why did my lightning node not route payments after I have funded 5 payment channels?
I have setup a docker-compose with bitcoind and clightning.
After 28 hours funding 5 channels I see nothing at all. I do not expect income, but at least that the channels are used.
$ lightning-cli listfunds
{
"outputs": [
{
"txid":…
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Why can't lightning network channels increase balances？
If A and B have a Lightning Network channel，it was opened with a funding transaction (say, 1BTC from both sides for 2BTC total). After A has spent some time transacting with B, the balance of the balance of the channel will be spent and then the…
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How do I set up a long-lived lightning channel for accepting bitcoin donations?
I want to set up a long-lived lightning channel to accept bitcoin donations. The plan was to open a channel with a capacity of 2.5 mBTC (currently valued around ~100$), "reverse submarine swap" or "loop-out" the initial funds, then loop out the…
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How can I send a payment to myself with lightening to rebalance 2 channels?
I have an active channel with bitstamp with a balance on my side. Bitstamp has an active channel with lightening power users (lpu) with balance on their side (I checked this with lncli queryroutes…
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How can you construct a cycle with LND to rebalance one of your channels with another?
I have at least two open channels, one of which has inbound capacity and the other has outbound capacity. How can I find a route and construct a payment to rebalance my channels against each other just using the LND commandline?
As in, what steps…
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Is it possible to rebalance channels by sending to yourself (from a channel to an other) in c-lightning? How?
I know it is possible with LND and I don't know if it is possible with Eclair.
I have tried to issue an invoice and to find a route with the same node but
I got the { "code" : -1, "message" : "Could not find a route" } message.
What am I missing?
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How will the Lightning Network handle most money being pushed towards specific nodes?
Are there simulations of scenarios taking into consideration that most payments in LN will go into specific nodes (say, Amazon or Ebay)? The majority of payments we make are not towards our friends, but towards big entities that sell stuff.
So the…
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How can I make my node a Lightning routing node?
I've spent some time setting up Umbrel on my rPi4, I've synced my Bitcoin Core wallet and funded two channels... Which I've now come to realize that's for me to make payments.
I was really hoping to use my BTC to help the growth of the Lightning…
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How does circular rebalance on LN work?
How does circular rebalance on LN work? (note: circular rebalance is term used in RTL, I use lnd). Let me describe the situation that happened to me:
I have two channels, one with Alice, one with Bob.
The situation before circular rebalance from my…
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New Node User Opening Channels Through Zap
I recently set up my first node and connected through Zap. I currently have one channel open which is funded on my local side and on the remote side for a small amount. I was told that my node is not public and I cannot find it on 1ml. Does anyone…
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I can pay invoices on my mainnet LND node, but others cannot pay my invoices
I have an LND node running the 0.5.2-beta release on a 2 core, 8GB ram Ubuntu 16.04 VM. This is my node: https://1ml.com/node/02d5efae50c1cdc6011e40b74f061ea4f444088865ec14a59e4ee6cf0d71c842fc
I used the Raspibolt tutorial to setup this node. It…
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How to receive funds in LN
http://lightning-wallet.com/using-lightning-wallet#receiving-lightning-funds
This link states that:
Nothing can be received once a fresh channel is created since a room for incoming funds should be first made by spending.
A payment channel can be…
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