Quote from: jackg on August 19, 2020, 11:42:11 PM

Quote from: DigitalMonster on August 19, 2020, 03:42:05 PM

Quote from: jackg on August 19, 2020, 12:11:07 PM

I don't think you can? You might just have to cooperatively close it and reopen another if it's that there's less than ~600 Satoshi in your wallet?

But youll need around 0.003 to open a new channel.

Sent test 0.0001 to one and the second wallet to try out LN.

Later on the site it turned out that the minimum need is 0.002 per wallet. Why do you say 0.003 is the minimum?

Something very expensive turns out to use LN. It's easier for me to wait for the hype to subside and then send 1 Satoshi \ bytes the old-fashioned way from the blockchain.

Why is that? After all, LN is designed to increase the speed and reduce commissions on transfers

A lot of nodes gave a funding rate of either 0.002 or 0.003 for their channels, it made sense to say 0.003 so you know that's the expected minimum. I'd try opening one smaller and then working out the minimum for that individual.

I don't know why they'd make the minimum 0.002 have you tried contacting their support? They might not merge them if you send more.

On chain transactions are charged per the kb and ln transactions are charged as a percentage. Fees should be lower than 3% for most routes and in some wallets you can enable protection against high fee routes (not sure about electrum).

For now, I want to open channels directly with my contractors, and make regular monthly transfers, let's say, and save on this by closing channels once a year, let's say. This way I won't have to pay extra routing fees, right? Then I can launch my node, so that these fees between their channels were not higher than 1 Satoshi as now I translate picking up time in the network when there is no excitement