Lesson 5: if you have liquidity stuck, don’t be afraid to abandon a peer to hunt for a more balanced one. Everyone is after their own interests and it may not be beneficial for that particular node operator to help you balance. I burned a lot trying to dance around balancing a peer, when in reality slashing and burning is the better way for them for now.

Likewise channels that are too small just get liquidity stuck. The realisation I have 50k sats stuck in 3 channels when in my early days of setting up, every sat needs to be operational.

Oh and #Zeus is bloody awesome.

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own up, awesome.

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Yes I have a couple of small peers I channeled too as well, mainly to help bootstrap them. However I had one 1m channel to a large operator that was just sucking me and returning nothing, which had to go