yes, you need inbound liquidity in order to be sent sats through your lightning channels
so when you establish a channel it’s usually 100% outbound capacity, so you can send those sats OUT from that channel
as you spend, and send those sats OUT, they then become inbound capacity (and can be sent back IN your direction)
but there are some services like Loop and Boltz where you can “switch” your outbound capacity to inbound
i think you essentially send your sats to some lightning address (giving you inbound capacity), and then they send you those sats (minus some fee) back to some on-chain address
unsure exactly how this allllll works (i’m still figuring it out), but it should be roughly correct
yort
npub156…03y3s
2023-07-09 12:54:22
in reply to nevent1q…sfn8
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npub156ndcn2xqlav8wrty2gk8x9qtmen7wx2uhl2hmrxsvkwq2duza2sw03y3sPublished at
2023-07-09 12:54:22Event JSON
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