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No problem! I looked into this deeply when setting up my family with LndHUB on my Lightning node.

I had hoped to simply credit their balances directly, but there was no obvious way to do that. Instead I had to have them “fund” their Lightning wallets through the Blue Wallet mechanism that gives them an on-chain address to send to.

It’s kind of a bootstrapping problem. Suppose you already have a working lightning node. Now you want to make a Blue Wallet Lightning wallet. There’s no way to transfer funds from your Lightning wallet to the LndHUB account. Paying an invoice fails with an obscure error. I’d have to dig up my notes for more details, it’s been a while. 😅
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Derek Ross 2y ago

one more question. if my node blows up, which is a very real possibility, i can get all of my sats back by restoring my node and force closing all of my channels. eventually, all of my sats (minus FC fees) will show up in my on-chain wallet. that's fine for me. however, in this scenario, what happens to the user's sats that i was hosting? how would i know how much of my on-chain balance is theirs?

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jimbocoin 🃏 2y ago

I believe you’d have to backup/restore the Redis database that LndHUB uses to keep track of accounts.