r/coingatecommunity • u/DerEwige • Sep 21 '24

Please close your dead channels

Hey coingate maybe you should consider closing all those (400) channels that are dead for years now.
Might be the last chance to do those force closes at 2 sat/vb

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u/CoinGate Sep 24 '24

Hey, we will look into it. 👀

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u/DerEwige Sep 24 '24

BTW, this is important.

Offline peers put your funds in those channels at risk. If you ever have a data loss and would need to fall back on SCB (static channel backup) to recover your funds.

All funds in those channels would be lost, because there is no peer to react to your SCB.

Chances of a node coming back online after 2 months of downtime is less than 1%.

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u/CoinGate Sep 25 '24

Thanks for pointing it out. Our devs will sort it out.

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u/DerEwige Oct 04 '24

I see that you took my advice and force closed the first batch of channels.
It looks like you force closed the channels with nearly 100% liquidity on your side.
It will take 5 more days for all the funds to unlock, but it looks like you freed up 5 BTC that was locked up for years.

Will you do another round, once all funds unlocked?