My lightning wallets are depleted.
My salary is paid in on chain bitcoin.
Phoenix has been announcing £130 incoming for 3 days now 💀
Hmmm. What should i do? 
Discussion
Right now, Need the funds pay the fees
Rough. Unfortunately for now and pheonix, just gonna have to just wait for fees to go down.
For the future, establish your own lightning node and develop a diverse channel network with a variety of inbound and outbound liquidity with various counterparties.
If you spend your sats on daily goods like bread, maybe try using a peer to peer sale of a single larger UTXO, and try to price the txn fee into the spread to break even as best you can from your pay date amount.
That was a better answer 👆🏻
Back to fiat mines! :D
But seriously... Can you switch to get paid % of your salary on lightning?
But even then I guess there will be a problem with inbound liquidity. I had it yesterday with Phoenix for quite a small amount... ($70)
If the employer doesn’t have lightning sats and outbound liquidity, pheonix will always need to loop in or swap in as they call it, and because they use their own UTXO set to do so, you will always be at the mercy of their fee rate decisions. It would be better to receive on chain sats in an onchain wallet, and spend from a single UTXO.
Even better, would be to get a percentage of payment in fiat that covers weekly or monthly expenses in full. If all expenses are paid in sats, then investing in a proper lightning node will allow greater flexibility and control for congested high fee times.
Cointelegraph pay me from a Nexo wallet 😂
I have been trying to live off bitcoin for almost 2 years and I don’t want to stop this experiment just yet.
Okay - looks like I’ll have to get a proper LN node set up.
Yah, if you had a proper LN node, you could direct the funds to its on chain wallet, and you’d have immediate access right now. You’d then be in control of your own UTXOs and could still send them from there to phoenix or use them there to open a new channel and spend over lightning. During congested times you’d still incur a txn fee when doing so, but if you set up channels during low fee times, you’d be able to use previously created liquidity to bridge yourself through the high fee environment to try and avoid those txn fees when you’d want.
This is a better part of the experiment tbh, dealing with high fee environment is critical learning opportunity for getting paid in btc directly. Could also ask coin telegraph to set up a LN node and open a channel with them to you and have them
see if they could manage a node themselves.
Really good advice, thank you! Yeah cointelegraph does not run a node. I know of 2 other guys who run nodes at CT 😬
Sounds like youre gunna have to eat some fees
Fuck around and find out