Probably a liquidity bottleneck between your channel partners and the sending wallet, would be my guess.
Okay. I’m a big fan of nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub, and I’m usually very content with it. But the past few hours have been very frustrating.
Node with plenty of good-sized channels and sufficient liquidity.
Receiving wallet (node) online with plenty of receiving capacity.
While attempting to move funds (say around 1M sats) to the wallet, nearly every spend failed, to the point of needing to pay 20+ smaller invoices to get the sats across, with many of those payments failing too.
Nothing in my setup has changed. Why is it like this?? That was 2 hours of my day lol
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1m sats is a pretty large amount to be moving on Lightning. Bear in mind that if Bitcoin even just overtakes gold's market-cap, that would be the equivalent of moving over $8,000, even though it's currently only a bit over $600.
That’s what I keep hearing lol (large amounts via LN, routing etc) but it’s weird - sometimes it works completely fine. I guess something like Boltz to Phoenix would be two large and well-connected nodes/channels, rather than my own channels with various LSPs. Still getting used to this 🤔
You make a great point though — that technically speaking, the number of sats one can move over Lightning is very large, and it’s just undervalued in dollar terms today. Great way to conceptualize it 🤝
Yeah, it's not just about your channel partners having a beefy channels, though. The liquidity in their channels has to be available in the direction you need it.