I have several channels set up recently as home lab experiments. To carefully choose peers, I've studied some nodes from LIT terminal and chose from some "Recommended Channels". However, it turned out to be not that smooth in the following days.
Steadily, I found some nodes ostensibly closed their channels running with my node after I created some inbound capacity by sending out some balance outward. I have no idea of the reasons(because we can't explain it to each other on LN but we should have a whisper capability right?). I had to bear some losses of my balance after the channel was forced to close, of course, the other side would gain. It's not a big amount totally, but I worry this could be a norm at the early stage of this tendering-needed baby ecosystem.
Should we have a reporting system(bad idea I know), or how can we have a better filtering mechanism to identify such bad players? Do we need some arbitrations? I'd love to hear your ideas and sharings and help improve the whole network before it's getting too late.
I tried to warn users about some aspects like these here: https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/recommendations-for-ln-users I did also an intense experiment with fees here https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-routing-fees-experiment
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but I worry this could be a norm at the early stage of this tendering-needed baby ecosystem.
Well, you opened channels to strangers that you don't know. If youn opened channels to friends, family or corporations that want to keep you as a cutomer the incentives would be COMPLETELY different.
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