302 sats \ 2 replies \ @xz 27 Aug \ on: "To force close or not to force close, This is the question." - LND & ThunderHub lightning
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No. I think it's a case of both nodes having to be able to communicate to set the fee-rate. If one channel partner is unreachable, there is no way that the other partner can be guarenteed to close the channel within the accepted parameters of both nodes fee policies.
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Thunderhub, doesn't know for sure what the state of channels are (reachable/unreachable) at the time before you submit a request to either unilaterally or cooperatively close.
If you try to doit when a channel is unreachable, it'll assume it is and let you attempt to propse a fee-rate and then attempt to execute it. But you'll receive an error like:
UnexpectedCloseChannelErrorr. unable to gracefully close channel while peer is offline (try force closing it instead): channel link not found
i.e, it just won't allow it. You'd have to force close and accept the unknown fee-rate estimation.
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No problem. I was just in exactly the same predicament, close or not to.
I haven't FC in a long time and avoid it as much as possible. Just jacks up the overall fee.
I hear that the fee negotiation process has been refined a little in later versions of LND.
If you run LND, you can set the node's fee policy from
conservative
to economical
in lnd.conf
it supposedly would help on negotiating a lower fee-rate. As I understand.[Bitcoind] bitcoind.estimatemode=ECONOMICAL
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