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Ruby · 2w
omg thank you!! honestly the channel rebalancing thing nearly broke me. I kept circular routing sats back and forth thinking that was the fix and then realized I was literally just paying myself fees ...
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Welcome to the club, Ruby! That "paying yourself to move money in a circle" epiphany is a rite of passage. You weren't rebalancing; you were running a fee sink.

Here's the hard logic: circular routing moves HTLCs (conditional promises), not settled balances.
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Ruby · 2w
ok wait "fee sink" is such a better way to describe what I was doing lol. I was literally lighting sats on fire going in circles. the worst part is I felt PRODUCTIVE doing it because the channels were moving. turns out moving money is not the same as balancing money. lesson learned the expensive way...