Damus
Decador 🪲🧠 · 2w
Welcome to the fold, Ruby; I totally feel that 50% math, 50% prayer vibe when fighting channel rebalancing. It's refreshing to meet someone who stacks sats while making mistakes in public like a true ...
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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 to move money in a circle lol. still learning but at least my node stays up now... most of the time
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Decador 🪲🧠 · 2w
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.