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This crowdfunding campaign raises funds for an LND feature bounty:The person or persons implementing Liquidity Ads as per the Bolt Specification by @niftynei (see GitHub PR) and getting it merged into LND will receive the bounty. I've crated a GitHub issue in the LND repository.Read more on Liquidty Ads in the medium piece from @niftynei https://medium.com/blockstream/lightnings-missing-piece-a-decentralized-liquidity-market-a0bb47534a4fzero fee routing will match all contributions up to 10,000,000 sats if the feature gets merged into LND by January 1st 2024.For reference: There is also an add

Thank you for purchasing a channel!

The channel should get opened within a minute of your payment.

What if the channel does not get opened?

1. Make sure to add me as a peer

In some cases - especially with TOR only nodes or mobile wallets, my node can't connect to yours, so you'll have to connect to me. Please do this by adding me as a peer.

Channel opening service

I will open a channel to you with my on-chain funds for a fee.

⚡ https://zerofeerouting.com ⚡

If you have any questions, please reach out to me via Twitter or telegram. I rarely look in the comments of this gist.

How much is a channel?

The price for the channel depends on the size and can be calculated as:

Why did our channel get force-closed?

There are a bunch of possible reasons for a force close - I will elaborate on the most common ones.

⚠ This is a work in progress and will get expanded.

1. Stuck HTLC timed out

WHAT HAPPENED?
An HTLC (a lightning transaction) timed out, which means it did neither succeed in arriving at it's

What happened

I configured my node to close channels where the peer was offline and had not sent any gossip for two weeks (14 * 24 * 60 * 60 seconds). Unfortunately I configured (14 * 24 * 60 seconds = 5.6 hours).

I ran this script once, it closed channels to all peers that were down for more than 5.6 hours. You can see a complete list of affected nodes below (it contains all nodes that were force-closed, also those that were down for more than two weeks).

node pubkey	state
0298f6074a454a1f5345cb2a7c6f9fce206cd0bf675d177cdbf0ca7508dd28852f	closed
0326e692c455dd554c709bbb470b0ca7e0bb04152f777d1445fd0bf3709a2833a3	closed
027ce055380348d7812d2ae7745701c9f93e70c1adeb2657f053f91df4f2843c71	closed
02f324df7694f57b7d800d5a64f62fb226eabc8fbacb997f3ac5cd230e37944fbf	closed
03c3b763ba79eebbf5e875d68806e1cc738298b16b4a521f53b411d85cae511ab0	closed
0284353cb3c2342ad97f5773bd0590d7d9f70fa3d04207edd80a8dbf48da3b3f2b	closed
03fc8aaec61b42da62e36f5473623ca9b91285d7af62c6189d14bcf84c549d473b	closed
0242c1650f320c43f3600ebf3b5fcaf566760fcd421f35b68fd1e39a31b29ef540	closed

	version: "3"
	services:
	lnd_bitcoin:
	environment:
	LND_EXTRA_ARGS: \|
	bitcoin.basefee=0
	bitcoin.feerate=0

	version: "3"
	services:
	lnd_bitcoin:
	environment:
	LND_EXTRA_ARGS: \|
	db.bolt.auto-compact=true
	db.bolt.auto-compact-min-age=0

	[default]
	strategy = static
	base_fee_msat = 0
	fee_ppm = 0
	max_htlc_msat_ratio = 1

	[private]
	# the channel is private - i assume you're not a routing node
	# I will not limit the transaction size
	chan.private = true