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Unfortunately I decided to open with too low fees and the channel opening was stuck in the mempool. Instead of just wait and drink tee, I decided to bump the fee which was a very bad idea.
FYI the reason why this is a bad idea is because a Lightning channel is two transactions from the very start:
- The transaction funding the channel
- The commitment transaction that closes the channel if one of the parties goes offline.
If you fee-bump the funding transaction, the txid changes, and the commitment transaction is no longer valid. The Lightning protocol isn't designed to deal with this situation.
Lightning node implementations could have made this easy, by letting you fee bump by opening a new channel with a higher fee, and then figuring out which channel to actually use when one of the txs finally confirms. Or at the very least, by letting you easily broadcast a cancel tx with RBF. But unfortunately LND doesn't support this even though lots of users have lost money like you.
SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT could have fixed this too, as with it the commitment transaction wouldn't have needed to sign a specific funding tx. But sadly that was held back years ago out of silly concerns that people would lose money misusing it manually; there's so many ways to lose money misusing Bitcoin!
The only reward that matters is the time spent with friends.
But I will take more sats if you are offering.
My dream is to be useful to as many people as possible. SN is just the tip of that dream's spear (and it still doesn't have much of a point yet tbf). I didn't have the resources or the capability to create SN when I had this dream. After mining ore and learning to smelt and smith and building failed spear after failed spear ...
SN, itself, is a stream of aha moments. I was originally inspired to create this spear tip by @RyanTheGentry describing @paul's Sphinx Chat at an Austin BitDevs, "Aha! Bitcoin micropayments can be used to solve digital commons problems! Oh, I've been wanting a Hacker News for bitcoin! BitDevs is like a Hacker News in person and it's amazing! Hacker News is a commons!"
My dream isn't nearly satisfied. I'm pretty sure satisfying dreams is about continually acting on things that may satisfy the dream though. Thinking about the dream is part of acting on it but it's not the cause of the dream happening.
Woo! Stalking enabled 😛
LOL guys no need to zap my joke meme.
Damn it now I really have to take these real sats and go to the bar to drink a beer.
Cheers to you guys!