Questions tagged [lightning-routing]
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Does a clearnet connection to my lightning node not require a TLS certicicate?
When I add my IP to announce-addr on core-lightning, I though about this connection requiring a TLS certificate, but you cannot obtain those with IPs alone, you would need an actual domain. Which made ...
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How Does the Lightning Network Work at a Real Level?
So, I have been trying to understand the basic functioning of lightning, but cannot connect the theory with the practice. This is what I mean.
Any theoretical introduction starts by assuming two ...
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Explicitly specify a path for LN payments
Can I specify the path that a payment has to do?
I know we can specify the intermediate nodes, but I'm trying to specify the channels. At least the first one (outgoing channel) if possible.
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Consistent "No route found" error with self hosted Lightning Node
I followed the Raspibolt guide on how to setup Lightning. Everything is up and running smoothly, except I consistently get issues with a route not being found for my payments... I've been running ...
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How does a sender routing a payment using a blinded path know what the fees are needed in the blinded portion of the path?
How does a sender routing a payment using a blinded path know what the fees are needed in the blinded portion of the path? Are some net fee hints somehow included in the blinded path? For a normal un ...
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Maximum Number of Hops an Onion Message Can Travel?
According to the specifications: https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/04-onion-routing.md#onion-messages
What's the maximum number of hops an onion message can travel?
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Do lightning nodes charge fees for their own channels?
My node has a bunch of channels. If I want to make payment, then by definition it will find a route that goes through one or more of my own channels. Are the current lightning implementations smart ...
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For running a lightning node and getting maximum exposure, should I forward port 8333 also (for bitcoin)? Or only 9735 (lightning)?
I've been wondering about this. From what I read, people only open 9735 to run a "successful" node.
To me it makes sense not to open bitcoins port, but I could also imagine that some ...
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How to implement Just in Time Routing on our lightning node
Can anyone here tell me how to implement "Just in Time Routing" for our lightning node?
We are running Umbrel for our node so if this is possible / feasible can it also be automated?
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What is the most successful method to automate circular rebalancing?
What is the most successful method to automate circular rebalancing?
We have tried the Torq and the LNDG app but so far they both do not wotk for us so we are still performing manual circular ...
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How to attract traffic to a Lightning routing node
We have a lightning node and are searching for some educated advice on how to attract more traffic to our routing node.
A short explanation of what we have been experiencing.
We have a small node ...
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Destination is not reachable directly and all routehints were unusable - how might I remedy that?
After launching lightningd I get following:
2023-07-20T06:54:46.533Z UNUSUAL 038.............................................................8f--connectd: Feature 28 requires feature 20
2023-07-20T06:...
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How do route hints affect pathfinding?
I understand that route hints can be provided when generating an invoice, but how exactly do wallets use this information to assist in pathfinding? I imagine this can vary slightly between ...
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What cryptographic guarantees apply to non-disjoint paths in basic MPP?
Imagine the following graph in the Lightning Network:
B D
/ \ / \
A C E
\ / \ /
F G
and node A wants to pay node E.
A chooses to pay with multi-path-payment composed of the routes: A-&...
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Force Closure of a channel with LNBig-42:
On May 14th our channel with LNBIG-42 was force closed. Not sure why but it could have been due to their node performing an update on the same day which caused a few other nodes to also have their ...
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