# Sats not back in BTC wallet after closing channels

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/sats-not-back-in-btc-wallet-after-closing-channels/5023>\
**Category:** Bitcoin and Lightning\
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/sats-not-back-in-btc-wallet-after-closing-channels/5023 "2021-12-04T18:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![DarthCoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/darthcoin/32/1628_2.png) [@DarthCoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/DarthCoin)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 10:52am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/sats-not-back-in-btc-wallet-after-closing-channels/5023/7 "2021-12-12T10:52:14Z")

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If all new users will start by reading the guides, all this trouble will not exist.

1. [Important links about nodes and LN](http://community.umbrel.com/t/important-links-to-learn-more-about-bitcoin-lightning-network/3556/)
2. [Getting started with Umbrel](http://community.umbrel.com/t/getting-started-with-your-umbrel/3555/)
3. [Check also all other posts in the “guides” section of this forum](http://community.umbrel.com/c/guides/14/l/top/all)

You need to understand first how LN works, how you can do internal swaps LN -\> onchain using Thunderhub or RTL app from Umbrel, how you manage your channels, how you fund/create channels and close them, balance of a channel is NOT the same as size of the channel.

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