What is rebalancing?

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If too many flow sats flow one way through a channel you have to rebalance it. Basically sending sats from one channel to another to even it out. I think….🤔

What are the consequences if you don't rebalance?

You won’t be able to send or receive sats

So you lose the Bitcoin that you locked in?

You don’t lose it at all. It’s just on another channel and you have to rebalance so it ends up back on yours more or less. When someone ends through your channel their bitcoin is on yours. If that makes sense

Aha

It’s a learning curve for sure but it clicks after a while. Nostr definitely inspired me to run a lightning node