You just need to reserve 1% of it for channel closes.
That reserve requirement should be disappearing sometime soon too.
Discussion
So if I send 1K sats to it, I can send 990?
If you have a 100k sat capacity channel, you can’t send out of it until you have 1k sats on your side to cover force close disputes. The sat 1,001 is spendable.
Oh ok I get it. 1% of the liquidity
Yeah, it’s one of the most annoying parts of Lightning but it’s going away now that we have ephemeral anchors.
I don’t know what that is but good thing it removes this
I found this conversation fascinating (as a nerd) but I was also thinking, what is a non-techie/nerd who’s getting into bitcoin going to think of all this, just to send bitcoin faster non-custodied (even that I feel is a learning curve in itself). Still though incredible work, and thank you.
The Zeus nuts option seems pretty easy to do on its own