I have a number of Online and one Offline channels on my Lightning Node, what is the best way to close these channels and return the Stats to my Lightning Node Bitcoin wallet so I can transfer BTC offline?

Any updates to this. I have a lightning channel in “Closing” status for a week now. I see all the info and my Sats in the LC, but my Lightning wallet is decreased to 0 Sats and it hasn’t showed up in my BTC wallet. I can’t do anything else to the LC either.

Hi Hakuna, thank you for the guide. However, I’m still unable to recover my Sats, as I’m probably not following the directions correctly I bet. Do you provide one on one assistance virtually, maybe via Google meets? I’m in U.S. Central time zone and am willing to pay 125K Sats for an hour of your ti…

Thank you for the offer, but I have to gently decline a meets-session. Don’t give up, your situation is not straight forward and wouldn’t be solved by the guide apparently. Bit of an edge case. If you have Telegram, you can hook me up there , chat is fine with me. But before, let’s get some context…

Appreciate the quick response and guidance. That was the only channel and I’m missing the onchain Sats. I already tried the steps from goliath77 a couple times and it didn’t work, actually got worse because my total_limbo_balance, local_balance, local_commit_fee_sat, and remote_commit_fee_sat all we…

Okay, thanks for the context. We need to dissect a couple of possibilities then. I’ll refer to the sections in The Guide where your Lightning close-transaction can’t get the channel closed what to do so probably good to have this open in a second window. Scenario 1, I can’t find “closing_txid”: “85…

My maxmempool size was already set at 1000MB before the recovery. See below screenshot, getting the same messages for both commands, don’t know why. Hopefully I’m inputting it correctly. Would the closing_txid still be there, since it disappeared after I deleted and reinstalled the lightning app/nod…

[image] Hakuna: ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose bitcoin exec -it bitcoind bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction Likely I’ve made a mistake here with the command, it’s not about the transaction. Could you try the same but without the -it flag ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose bitcoin exec bitcoind bitcoin-cl…

Getting the same error messages for both commands. Please advise, thanks… [Closing TX_ID_b]

may need to append sudo to the start too

Closing Channels - Online & Offline?

Bitcoin and Lightning

Hakuna February 4, 2024, 7:52pm 3

This one might help. Try force-closing them.

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Closing Channels - Online & Offline?

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