Trying to balance public Lightning channels on LND, an experience full of challenges ...

Trying to balance public Lightning channels on LND, an experience full of challenges and surprises! ⚡️ More information,check out the article，written by cadayton (npub1xzu…taqn)

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The whoa of trying to balance public lightning channels on LND.

Node             Active Capacity  RemBalance(In) LocBalance(Out) Sent       Received   HTLCs Fee  Weight
----             ------ --------  -------------- --------------- ----       --------   ----- ---  ------
LQwD-Canada        True 2,000,000 40,330         1,956,990       23,134,761 25,091,752     0 2020 1116
Uila-Hawaii        True 1,000,000 959,376        37,613          3,984,098  3,024,721      0 2351 1116

pwd: PS /root/BTCPayServer/btcpayserver-docker

Creating an Lightning Invoice for 5000 sats
    $mylncli = "lncli --macaroonpath /root/.lnd/admin.macaroon addinvoice 5000"
    $mylncli = "docker exec btcpayserver_lnd_bitcoin " + $mylncli
    $rslt = Invoke-Expression $mylncli | ConvertFrom-JSON

Self-Paying the Lightning Invoice for 5000 sats
    $cid = '888921066311188486'                                                   # LQwD-Canada
    $hop = '021eb3cebc4aee0e563d6ec77131035e817ad69c6c7577e0582e14ca06c502596a'   # Uila-Hawaii
    $mylncli = "lncli --macaroonpath /root/.lnd/admin.macaroon payinvoice "    
    $mylncli = "docker exec btcpayserver_lnd_bitcoin " + $mylncli
    $mylncli += "--allow_self_payment --fee_limit 30 --force "
    $mylncli += "--outgoing_chan_id " + $cid + " "
    $mylncli += "--last_hop " + $hop + " "
    $mylncli += "--pay_req " + $rslt.payment_request
    Invoke-Expression $mylncli

Interactive output generated from payinvoice command

When the command runs the console is locked up with a bunch of tabular output to the console
showing the attempts at finding a payment route.  Then finally...

SUCCEEDED | LQwD-Canada->Jupiter01->WalletOfSatoshi.com->Uila->SANJOSE_UBETCHA

Now we see how the channel balances have changed.

./Get-PSLndExplorer.ps1 -lndcmd PayCh -dpx

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”`Node Active Capacity RemBalance(In) LocBalance(Out) Sent Received HTLCs Fee Weight

LQwD-Canada True 2,000,000 32,780 1,965,159 23,139,764 25,104,923 0 1401 1116 Uila-Hawaii True 1,000,000 954,376 42,614 3,984,098 3,029,721 0 2350 1116

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