I turned this FC into a little "blog" post, dissecting the invidual steps that lead to this:
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Dissection of a force-close that already cost me 140k sats \ stacker news
I run c-otto.de and, despite my best efforts, sometimes have to pay for force-closes. Because the one from last night was rather expensive, I'd lik...
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Hi @npub1r0ck...0j93, thanks for the FC bot! I noticed that it doesn't include the fees paid for HTLCs that either timed out or didn't resolve back to the sender. In my case that added 48k sat to one FC, in addition to whatever I need to pay in order to sweep this output. Do you think it's worthwile to add these transactions to your calculations? I realize that they only appear after a delay (cltv_expiry for the two HTLC transactions and to_self_delay for the sweeps). PS: I always resort to
LN Things Part 5: HTLC Deep Dive
Day 7 of #7DaysOfBitcoin
 in order to understand what's going on. Really helpful :)
Hi @LNBฯŸG, do you have any information why FCs happen between your own nodes? This isn't the first time I've seen this, and I believe this should never happen. View quoted note โ†’
I'm a bit confused about block template creation vs. empty blocks. If you know Stratum V2 and related things, please chime in here:
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Empty blocks and improvement ideas \ stacker news
Sometimes miners produce empty, or rather "empty", blocks which only contain the coinbase transaction (paying new BTC to the miner) and the necessa...
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Constructing a block template to avoid mining "empty" blocks
In my understanding, Stratum V2 can help avoid "empty" blocks (ref A, ref B), as most of the information can be distributed ahead of time...
PSA: If you run lnd with a pruned bitcoind (or maybe neutrino?), check the output of `lncli getinfo` -> "synced_to_chain". If this value is stuck at "false", you might want to restart your node. This issue is being investigated at
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[bug]: LND frequently loses sync to chain with pruned backend ยท Issue #8250 ยท lightningnetwork/lnd
Background I run LND compiled from source on a Ubuntu VPS. I use Bitcoin Core as my backend, pruned to 100GB (prune=100000). I've noticed on variou...
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