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semisol

I tested a filtered Bitcoin node with mempool against the public mempool.space instance

Both fee estimates were within tolerances and either both confirmed or both didn’t on the next block

average_bitcoiner 4mo ago 💬 1

So non-issue for force closures?

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semisol 4mo ago 💬 1

Yes. It must also be understood that mempool consistency is not guaranteed and nodes must be able to tolerate drifts in fee estimates

semisol 4mo ago 💬 1

There’s also the fact that LND has its own proprietary fee estimator, and therefore had a lot of force closures during fee volatility periods with CLN/Eclair nodes

So this would have to be fixed even with uniform mempools

average_bitcoiner 4mo ago 💬 1

Good nuance. What fee estimation is it using? It’s not from the node associated to it?

semisol 4mo ago

I am not sure. Some people also connect it to custom fee estimators too that are neither LND’s own or bitcoind