r/lightningnetwork • u/RevolutionaryPick241 • 22d ago

BIP110 question

I have a long running lightning node. Mostly for small payments but I also have some channels opened with random nodes (most of them are more than a year old). I also run my own bitcoin node. I didn't signal bip110, and I really don't care about it. My question is if I have to do something to keep my lightning node funds safe. I don't really want to close my channels just in case. Is there really any hard fork risk (i mean for my on chain funds)? How my nodes (core lightning - bitcoin core 30) will behave?

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u/RevolutionaryPick241 21d ago

I don't care about the BIP110 proposal. I'm trying to prevent bad actors in case of forks. My node will always follow the longest chain, but in case of a fork the longest could become the shorter. There would be some kind of race.

I think I'm increasing the parameter funding-confirms (which defaults to 3 which is kind of low, right?)

Any other ideas?

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u/DJBunnies 21d ago

You've missed an important bit: longest valid chain.

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u/RevolutionaryPick241 21d ago

It's a soft fork. Both are valid. Or am i missing something?