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Today I learned a lot about Lightning. For example, if you have very old LND channels, it's possible that they won't be of the ANCHOR channel type. These cannot be CPFP fee bumped. It's also possible that older CLN channels are this way too. I have 43 channels and 4 of them are of the STATIC_REMOTE_KEY type. Those 4, if they get force closed, cannot be fee bumped.

My bad luck left me a channel with a lot of sats on my end, of a channel that was remotely opened to me and a non ANCHOR channel. Essentially the worst combination.

This left me with a pending transaction of 1 sat/vbyte. It could take 6 months for the mempool to almost clear again. But, there's also a chance that my transaction never gets through too. Especially with the upcoming bull run next year, we just don't know what it's going to be like.

So, what does a Nostrich do in this situation. Well, for starters, I got annoyed and freaked out. I then spent two days trying to resolve this.

And then I paid F2Pool 147K sats for them to include my transaction in an upcoming block. That may seem like a lot, but I had 6.5M sats on the line here. That's an incredible amount of Bitcoin to me. This gives me peace of mind.

To prevent this from happening, I'm probably going to close the other 3 channels that I have open that are not ANCHOR channels so that this does not happen again. I'll reopen what I can when I can.

At least I can now go to bed a happy Nostrich.

Goodnight!

🧡NEEDcreations is stacking sats & jamming to EDM 2y ago

Holy shit. How do I find out if I have ANCHOR channels?

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bevo 2y ago

In command line use command listchannels, it gives you all the data relevant to all channels. Look for "commitment_type": "ANCHORS", If you dont see this then I dont think it is

In umbrel from the umbrel directory put in below command

./scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli listchannels

Derek Ross 2y ago

I created an alias for him. He can use the standard lncli and bitcoin-cli commands without needing to run the standard long Umbrel commands.

bevo 2y ago

I used this to modify my bash rc file so all I have to do is type the actual command after myfunc and I can run any command. I gave him the full command incase he was a newb and didn’t know. Is there another way to run the commands by typing just the command and not preceding it with myfunc that you know of????

myfunc() {

./scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli "$@"

}

Derek Ross 2y ago

yes, that's what i used to do essentially. edit .bash_aliases and add the following

alias lncli="/home/umbrel/umbrel/scripts/app compose lightning exec lnd lncli"

alias bitcoin-cli="/home/umbrel/umbrel/scripts/app compose bitcoin exec bitcoind bitcoin-cli"