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this default auto-pilot flow gives you incoming liquidity of 1m sats. so you can instantly receive lightning payments of any amount you want up to 1m.

if you manually want to open a channel to be able to send, then you deposit onchain funds and open a channel. We recommend there at least 250k sats. but that depends on how much you want to be able to send and receive.

Huw 1y ago

Gotcha, thanks for the help. So I can open an incoming channel with 1m sats regardless of what is in my Alby account if I choose to use that?

If I want an outbound channel I need to set that up manually and ideally have it at 250k minimum?

Just want to double check, first time trying to run a lightning node!

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bumi 1y ago

If you want outbound capacity you need to put some money in.

So you can also just send a few sats in through that first channel you get. You don't need to specifically open a new channel.

You start, Alby Hub by default helps you to open a channel to receive. Then you can receive payments of any amount and that you then can spend.

Huw 1y ago

Great, that makes sense, thanks for your help and patience!