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Board Electrum
Re: Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough
by
satscraper
on 10/02/2022, 14:11:41 UTC
-snip- but can not move further to open LN channel in Electrum connected to testnet as the wallet's Open Channel button remains in the gray state. The wallet is topped up with 0.01 tBTC which, from my understanding, is enough for channel support. The button remains inactive no matter whether trampoline is disabled  or not. I would appreciate any suggestion on how to overcome things that block me from  LN channel opening with Electrum.
The two things that you may have missed are:
  • Lightning should be enabled in the menu "Wallet->Information" if it's not ticked at least once yet (if it's created by an older version).

Thanks, that helped. Now  I have the choice between two options one of which is Remote Node ID and this is exactly  what I would like to use. But I'd like to have channel exclusively between two wallets I own, no middle-position node in between. Is that possible or the only way for me  to have my wallets LN-connected  is to establish connection of each of two wallets to known peer?