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Taproot is a different protocol to Lightning so how does it tap into it

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They are rebuilding their lightning implementation on top of Taproot, ie their onchain transactions optionally make use of Taproot.

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Does this mean existing channels need to be closed and opened as taproot channels to reap the benefits?

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I think it’s fine to take advantage of taproot privacy on a go forward basis to avoid the fee impact of closing channels all at once

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It means any new channels you create can be these simple taproot channels. It doesn't sound like you can upgrade existing channels.

Although I wonder if somehow you could splice into an upgrade when lnd has splicing (I don't know enough about splicing).

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That would make sense to me

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FYI the taproot channels are only available for private channels (currently).

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Updated! looking for those memory fixes and the watchtower improvements.

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An update to work with

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