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So interesting. When I set up this lightning node I rushed to get a bunch of smallish channels quickly from amboss.

Right now there’s like 50k sats total that are stuck on these small channels - would best thing to do is wait and try again hoping some liquidity is added?
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Rich Nost 2y ago

I might consider closing all channels while fees are cheap, and pool your liquidity into one channel with a very well-connected node. Going forward, maybe stack a little more before establishing larger channels. Small public channels don't really do anyone any good.

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symbsrcool 2y ago

Going to do this. What would be a good threshold to consider a channel too small?

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Rich Nost 2y ago

Lots of nodes set minimum channel and htlc sizes. I don't know what the mean or median of that is across the network graph. Personally, my smallest channel is 500k sats.