It backfired when I tried to open a Lightning Network channel with a low fee, and the channel was closed when it didn't confirm within 24 hours. Closing the channel meant a much higher fee did CPFP.
Talking about LN: is that a subject here in WO? I only follow this thread once in a while (there's just too much to read), but considering the level of Bitcoin fans here, I'm curious if it's used

Boblawblaw tried messing about with it some time ago. I think he gave up after having similar experiences to you.
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Playing with it over the last 4 months has been... well... a bit of a slog TBH as things were approaching the 0.6 release.
Funded about 0.5 BTC to play with across a bunch of channels, pulled out 0.26 BTC after shutting everything down. Fucked around with Satoshi's place a bit, bought some stickers, but I believe most of the 0.24 BTC I didn't get back was blown on channel open/close fees, and possibly just "lost" due to bugs and shit.
Whatever.
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