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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 1 Nov \ parent \ on: Practical Guide to the Bitcoin Hard Fork bitcoin_beginners
Right now? No, don't close them.
In general? No, don't close them.
Only in the case is a real hard fork. But hard forks do not just happen.
Could be dangerous? Maybe if you have bad actors peers that want to screw you over.
A simple protection could be to use watchtowers. You will need to close the channels only if you want to recover the "new coins" from the other forked chain and as a precaution to preserve the control of the existing channels.
Yes it will be a lot of disruptions because are many noobs out there running public LN nodes and they do not know what they are doing.
Just don't panic now. It could be just a fuzz in the end. The whole situation is stupid.
Thanks. I have no interest in the 'fork' or forked coins frankly. I don't want to sell them or interact with them... based on what @nerd2ninja said doing so could compromise the 'current' Bitcoin keys and so I don't want anything to do with them.
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I did it in 2017, nicely doubling my stash.
But yeah you have to do it properly, sweeping the new coins into new addresses. And also on the right time.
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sweeping the new coins into new addresses. And also on the right time.
Can you break that down?
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