0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Brunswick 20 May 2022 \ on: I'm Roy Sheinfeld, the CEO & founder of Breez, in love with the Lightning economy, AMA!!! ⚡ bitcoin
I was really enjoying breeze until the sats I initially put in ran out and found I needed to reinitialize my wallet with a large 2ksat fee (for a second time).
I tried refilling before it ran out but it failed after a dozen tries.
I rarely go on an uninstall rampage, but I tell you that did it for me. This happened to me today.
Losing 50 cents in a vending machine will never be forgotten. I won't be coming back if that's how it's supposed to work.
Also lack of a playlist and the ability to choose to auto-add to a playlist and auto-download like podcast addict is a major deficit.
Is my experience unique?
Breez charge a fee whenever there's a need to create a new channel. This is different from a custodial solution. Not sure why you failed to top up the wallet, maybe the sender failed to route? Generally, bugs can happen. We're learning and improving the product all the time.
Playlist is a feature on our roadmap.
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It would be nice to prevent your wallet from being emptied out and closed out simply by listening to podcasts. Needing to spend another buck to open a new channel only to have it happen again will piss people off enough they won't want to spend their time on your platform
I didnt see an answer to my original question. I certainly hope closing people's channels isn't your primary revenue model.
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We don't manually close channels unless they weren't being used for at least a month. There are cases where channels get closed because of unresponsive nodes or bugs (Lightning isn't yet 100% robust).
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It happened to me in minutes. I was unable to generate an invoice to refill my recently emptied wallet without paying another channel open fee.
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This is another reason why it seems your channel got closed by the network and not manually by Breez. We don't have any automation in place that close channels... Btw, closing channels is costing us funds. We would much rather keep channels open for active users.
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