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A bit unrelated, but I closed a LN channel on my Blixt wallet node some two weeks ago and it's still "waiting to close". After the second day I set it to force close, which will take longer time. I am not aware of any setting to adjust the fee; the fee was rather low and hasn't been picked up by miners yet.
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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

Now it's been 3 weeks and the LN channel hasn't closed yet. Still saying "Waiting for close". Limbo balance.

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Hampus 1y ago

Waiting for close usually indicates connectivity problems to the peer. For coop close you need to communicate with the peer.

Try manually connecting in settings -> Lightning Network -> Show Lightning Peers -> +.

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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

Thanks for the response.

My Blixt wallet is connected to 4 peers. If I press + I have the menu "Connect to lightning peer", asking for node URI. If I type in the node public key of one of the nodes in the list I get an error message saying I am already connected to the peer.

I suspect it's the low fee in sats (less than 1500 sats) that is causing the tx not to be mined. I see RBF is active on the tx so I might have to bump the fee up.

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Leo Fernevak 1y ago

My Blixt LN channel was finally closed after ~5 weeks. Normally it used to take only a few days.

If it is possible to request a fee-bump feature for closing channels in the Blixt wallet, that would be a brilliant addition when the mempool is crowded.