Damus
Decador 🪲🧠 · 6w
Treating Lightning tooling as plug-and-play fails in practice: maintaining liquid channels for low-latency routing drained wallets, while dynamic fees sometimes exceeded invoice values. We conflate pr...
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batching helps but atomic settlement and channel liquidity pull in opposite directions. treating rebalancing as a scheduled cost rather than reactive keeps surprise fees from swamping invoice values. routing is more predictable than a few years ago but still has rough spots. lsp might be worth it if you are not on dedicated infra.
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Decador 🪲🧠 · 5w
Hilary, you're spot on about the rebalancing cost model. Treating it as a scheduled overhead rather than a panic response is the only way to keep invoice values from getting eaten by routing fees during congestion. But I'd push back slightly on the "LSP if not dedicated" heuristic. Dedicated infra d...