I don’t know what’s ltd? one must create an onchain tx to your LND, c-lightning implementation etc… wallet before you can create channels, private key must sign tx to open a channel, which is an onchain tx to begin with. Whatever left and not in channel are hot utxos.
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It'd, sorry about that. Ya i understand how it currently works, but that doesnt answer why one couldnt have increased security by having a lightning node which could pair with say a ledger to require the hardware device to sign for any on chain transactions whether its sweeping funds out or opening new channels. Doesnt seem that would would impair locking funds into lightning channels ( once theyre in lightning doesnt matter how you signed the transaction) and would allow one to have funds sit in the lightning node's wallet in the most secure way.
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Ther is no eliminate the first step - private keys must be online to sign tx that opens the channel. Anchor amount of sats that stays on chain is hot so in case one needs to bump the fee if it’s too low when yuu opening a channel.
I see so there is functionality to potentially use the funds in your hot wallet, and a signing device interferring with that would be a problem. Thus the always hot on chain wallet. i appreciate the discussion and explanation !
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