Is there anything that can mitigate how costly force closures are? Couldn’t the rate be capped and the closing party have to do a CPFP with their own money to get it into sooner block? Seems crazy that the counterparty can force me to spend my money. Or am I missing something?
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Your node will initiate the force close all by itself if an htlc gets stuck
The best way to prevent it is to pick rock solid channel partners and make sure your node never goes down, also don't use tor