Replying to Bogi

I think the trickiest part of this is how you handle the LN gateways. Does your federation have one LN gateway that is clustered among the guardians? Does each guardian run its own LN gateway? I found documentable from LND on how you would run a clustered LND node but I wanted to use CLN.
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Max 2y ago

You are all the guardians, and you are the LN gateway.

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average_bitcoiner 2y ago

LN gateways are just special clients offering LN sats for ecash. You could invite a friend to be a LN gateway.

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Bogi 2y ago

I understand that part but I don't think Fedimint's current implementation has redundancy on a lightning guardian that fails. Say you're on vacation in Costa Rica and you're minting/zapping away and the guardian the zaps arr going through fails during a transaction... and since you're on vacation you won't be able to fix the failure for a couple of weeks.

What happens to the lightning transactions that were ongoing when the Fedimint's guardian LN gateway failed/went offline? If you're already running multiple guardians then one of those should take over as the failed LN gateway with a fully synched database and things should just move along as if no failure happened... no risk of forced closures or loss of funds.