Why was my channel force-closed? #8288
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My channel was force-closed and I don't understand why. It's an expensive process these days with the mempool being full. I wish I can avoid this somehow. Here are my logs. Running LND 0.17.0-beta with bitcoind v22.0.0 You can see the force-closing channel on
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I can't figure it out, but reading other explanations it's likely a HTLC timeout issue. It's quite frustrating as force-close fees are so high. I wonder if there's any way to prevent this. |
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This outgoing HTLC has timed out, as shown in the following logs,
Unfortunately, there's not much you can do if your peer is not cooperative. However, you do have a few options to prevent high fees being paid,
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I can't figure it out, but reading other explanations it's likely a HTLC timeout issue.
It's quite frustrating as force-close fees are so high. I wonder if there's any way to prevent this.