I have a branch that fixes this just need to get back to it :(

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Been there, top of ‘17 tho. Keep paying attention and by ‘26/‘27 you’ll have a handle on things.

Lighting is a whole beast tho. Basics are you need both inbound and outbound liquidity. Liquidity is determined by channel sizes. When someone opens a channel to you, that is inbound, it means sats can flow from them, to you.

When you open a channel to someone, that’s outbound, from you, to them.

With pheonix, there is no way to request others open a channel to you. The only way to acquire inbound, is to send yourself sats, where a channel is then auto opened by ACINQ providing inbound, which is then immediately used up by the sats you’ve sent to yourself.

The only way to then create additional inbound without spending more sats opening new channels, is to spend the sats in the wallet, leaving an empty channel ready to receive.

Now that you’ve opened channels, send the sats back out to wallet of satoshi, and see hoe much you pay in fees. The next time sats are sent to your pheonix wallet, they will use the existing channel with excess liquidity, and you won’t lose 3000 sats opening a new one up.

Been there, top of ‘17 tho. Keep paying attention and by ‘26/‘27 you’ll have a handle on things.

Lighting is a whole beast tho. Basics are you need both inbound and outbound liquidity. Liquidity is determined by channel sizes. When someone opens a channel to you, that is inbound, it means sats can flow from them, to you.

When you open a channel to someone, that’s outbound, from you, to them.

With pheonix, there is no way to request others open a channel to you. The only way to acquire inbound, is to send yourself sats, where a channel is then auto opened by ACINQ providing inbound, which is then immediately used up by the sats you’ve sent to yourself.

The only way to then create additional inbound without spending more sats opening new channels, is to spend the sats in the wallet, leaving an empty channel ready to receive.

Now that you’ve opened channels, send the sats back out to wallet of satoshi, and see hoe much you pay in fees. The next time sats are sent to your pheonix wallet, they will use the existing channel with excess liquidity, and you won’t lose 3000 sats opening a new one up.

Why did you need two channels? New to this also. Going to create a wallet soon.

Me neither. But I’m sorry

Talk some shit about government

Was there a big fee?

Has any #damus users had any posts fail to go through lately? I’m pretty sure it was because the damus relay randomly failing to accept all new posts but I’m not sure. Damus should retry posts until it succeeds or until the app is closed.

I too have encountered this and will follow your example in endeavoring to learn; thanks for the reminder!

Pheonix is a great self custodial lightning wallet, but with that comes more risk and possible mistakes, as it does demand more knowledge of how lightning works. I tried help explain things, let me know if you need more info.

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I had some of the same questions, this should help some of you read through it

Learn about channels. Most likely you made small channels. there are set fees to create channels, smaller the channel, higher the %. One really big channel, is much more useful than a bunch of small channels.

Also, ACINQ is your only channel partner when using pheonix. ACINQ had their own fees they charge to use their liquidity and connections.

Pheonix is a great self custodial wallet, but you do pay for the service of ACINQ as well as the fees to open channels through them.

Phoenix is a good Lightning wallet. You should learn about channels. You basically want to create sizable channels to well connected, well maintained nodes.

I know it costs to create the channel but it also cost to move from WoS?

The fees to move from WoS were 3,000? Also looking to learn more about this.

🤯 god damn I’m assuming it might’ve been cuz of the swap from on chain to off chain