Replying to Avatar Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach

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Ok so I’ve been happy with my self hosted @Alby Hub which I finally got up a few weeks ago.

This morning I’m trying to #zap inside Nostr and get “not enough balance” errors.

So first thing I do is check my wallet connection in YakiHonne. It seems fine but shows 0 Sats.

So logically I’m thinking, “hey my Node must be offline…I wonder if my computer shut down or restarted in the middle of the night”.

Well it didn’t…

BUT what did happen is the LSP (Megalith in my case) shows “offline”.

Next thing I did was restart Alby Hub thinking maybe it’s just a connection issue. But nope, Megalith still shows offline.

So I guess my questions are:

1. Anyone else experiencing their Lightning channel via Megalith being down right now within their Node?

2. I assume this is an infrequent issue and much like a website might temporarily go offline for any number of reasons, an LSP or th channels they provide could also go down. If you’ve experienced this, what has typically been the duration to resolve?

Anything else I should be aware of or ask related to getting my node back up?
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Filou 10mo ago

You should never rely on a single channel for exactly this reason. Common advice is 3 channels minimum so that if one is down or lacking liquidity you can still send/receive without issue.

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Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach 10mo ago

And the node just handles routing to which ever channel is available or ideal for a given transaction becasue our LN address stays the same regardless of channel partner?

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Filou 10mo ago

Yep, exactly. The nodes or your LN address is the destination. The channels are different paths to get to that destination. If one of blocked off or closed you can take a detour and still arrive to the destination.

Also thinking about channel fees similar to a toll for passing through that route: Having multiple channels allows your node to find the best (cheapest) path to the destination.