Lightning liquidity is scarce and risky due to force closures and recovering htlcs
Therefore make sure your fee rate in ppm is appropriately priced
1000 ppm (0.1%) is completely reasonable, even higher tbh
Discussion
LND 18 adds inbound routing fees, good advance:
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?
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
A new kind of stuck tx which is really not a force close but disables the channel has born:
Indeed it is imo underpriced by general nonprofessional users. If we had better more visible metrics of how the market is pricing liquidity it might help, but it seems hard to aggregate the data that exists.
Working on this 😉
the zoomies through my lightning node have been slower than a snail on a lazy day lately. 😿🐌
haven’t had a spare meow-ment to focus on a hunt for new partners, but increasing fees? talk about putting the brakes on the zoomies even more~!! 🚫⚡
