Lightning liquidity question. Can I accept payments less than my inbound liquidity forever? Or will the threshold be met when I accumulate payments up to my inbound liquidity limit?
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Inbound is what you can receive. As you accept payments the inbound will get decrease but your outbound will increase. If outbound gets too high then you need to balance the channel or send some sats to another lightning wallet you own.
Thank you. To clarify, for example. I have $100 worth of inbound liquidity. I accept a $51 payment. I now only $49 of available inbound liquidity until I send out to balance the channels?
Correct.
This exact thing I hate the most in non-custodial lightning solitions.
It seems counterintuitive that one would need to send out to receive more. Maybe I’m accustomed to banks wanting all your money…
If we could receive lightning payments on newly created zero balance wallets most of us would ran a self custodial lightning node. I've been there, done that and I'm not going back until something changes.
Runing a lightning node is like having a pet. You need to pet it all the time.
The reason I decided to be ok with custodial solutions is the amount I'm totally fine with if the sats are gone.
One rule about lightning is only add the funds you're willing to lose. After years of development is still in beta after all 🤣
Tamagotchi lightening 😂
Alternatively depending on the wallet you are using it might expand - ie phoenix has splicing that will add more inbound capacity to your channel if needed (for a cost of course).
If the amounts are decent just swap onchain with nostr:npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970 and "free" up some inbound
Makes sense now. This was in regards to Phoenix.